Tag: Retro Review

The Lion King (1994): Revisiting Disney’s Cultural Phenomenon Across the World.

We are just a few days away from the release of Mufasa (2024), directed by critically-acclaimed director Barry Jenkins. Mufasa got its fame in India through the voice overs of […]

Revisiting Upendra’s ‘Super’ Dystopian Political Drama Ahead of its Spiritual Sequel, UI

Upendra is one of very few original voices of India. His films often get cult status. Ahead of the release of his latest UI on December 20th, let’s revisit UI’s […]

Revisiting ANR’s Velugu Needalu (1961): A Tale of Love, Loss, and Redemption

Venkataramaiah (SVR), once wealthy, now lives a modest life with his shrewish wife, Kanakadurga (Suryakantham). They adopt Suguna (Savitri), but their happiness is short-lived when they have a biological daughter, […]

Joker (2019): Revisiting the Single Superhero Movie With Most Cultural Impact.

A superhero movie is an amusement park, as said by Martin Scorcesee. There is nothing wrong with theme parks, they give you the adrenaline rush and an  instant ecstatic high. […]

Idi Katha Kaadu (1979): Revisiting Villainous Chiranjeevi in Chalam’s World of Women.

K Balachander’s directorial about a woman’s content of life without depending solely on the man’s approval stuck with three heroes: Chiranjeevi, Kamal Haasan and Sarath Babu In the world of […]

Revisiting Yugantar Collective: The Brave Feminist Film Movement of the 1980s.

Feminism, the subject which is widely spoken but least understood in its truer sense, has been the interest of “progressive” filmmakers all over the world for all the right purposes. […]

Mana Desam (1949): Revisiting Telugu’s First Nationalist Movie that also introduced NTR to the Big Screen.

The veteran Dada Saheb Phalke awardee LV Prasad’s fourth movie as a director, Mana Desam, is the first movie to be made on Nationalist sentiments in Telugu cinema. As India […]