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Jeo Baby on anthology Freedom Fight, infinite possibilities of The Great Indian Kitchen Part 2, and more
Neelima Menon • 3 years agoJeo Baby discusses his filmmaking process, discovering feminism at an early age and upcoming projects
Freedom Fight trailer: After The Great Indian Kitchen, Jeo Baby brings 5-part anthology film
Trendingdesk • 3 years agoThe Great Indian Kitchen director will also be seen playing a key role in the anthology movie. The film also stars Srinda, Kabani, Rohini, Joju George, Rajisha Vijayan, among others.
Best Indian Films 2021: Of fairytales and mythology, unfairy tales and bitter realities
Annavetticad • 3 years agoI’ve confined this collection to those that were either released in theatres in the past 12 months or on OTT platforms or both, not just at festivals, to keep it accessible to the public.
Best Malayalam Films 2021: Ode to a woman rebel, a male superhero and unrelenting experimentation
Annavetticad • 3 years agoBetween The Great Indian Kitchen and Minnal Murali flowed a stream of quality Malayalam releases so unrelenting, that I have struggled to restrict my Best Malayalam Films 2021 compilation to just 10.
How dysfunctional marriage was a recurrent theme on screen in 2021, from Haseen Dillruba to Decoupled
Archita Kashyap • 3 years agoThe trend of evolving marriage stories has created a revision of the safest, most used, and most overdone formula of Hindi cinema — one that has sustained the myth of a perfect marriage.
How Malayalam cinema mapped gender bias and toxic masculinity in 2021, from The Great Indian Kitchen to Joji
Neelima Menon • 3 years agoAs the year comes to an end, we explore how Malayalam cinema has tackled quite a lot of issues in their narratives — primarily circling around patriarchy, casual sexism, the stigma around second marriages, abortion, and gender-equal spaces in marriages.
Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2021: Anurag Basu wins best director for Ludo; Suriya, Vidya Balan bag acting honours
• 4 years agoIFFM also honoured Pankaj Tripathi with the diversity in cinema award, while actor Nimisha Sajayan received an honorary mention for her film The Great Indian Kitchen.
Promising Young Woman, The Great Indian Kitchen are both films with simmering feminism and everyday oppression
Karishmaupadhyay • 4 years agoThings are not going to change in the space of one film. That is the stone-cold reality of a woman’s life and one that even the most realistic storytellers completely ignore.
Swara Bhasker, Divya Dutta's drama Sheer Qorma to be screened at Indian Film Festival Stuttgart
Fp Staff • 4 years agoSheer Qorma, a love story between two queer women, is also nominated for best film and ''German Star of India'' award at the Indian Film Festival Stuttgart.
How Eeb Allay Ooo! and The Great Indian Kitchen use dance to vet the limits of freedom in gendered and class-coloured spaces
Ranjini Nair • 4 years agoDance often becomes a way of meaning-making within films whose ramifications remain relatively under-explored and under-developed.