toy theorist of art
John Xaviers Arackal I first heard about Hanumankind in Ashwath Kok’s review of Aashiq Abu’s Malayalam film Rifle Club. I have written about how Aashiq Abu foregrounds the collective protagonist in this film, which is also Hanumankind’s debut as an actor. Then I saw Hanumankind on an Apple Music podcast and I realized that he is not just …
At the film’s end, there is an arresting final image of the Rifle Club as a collective protagonist. It dawned on me when Unni Vlogs pointed out in a review that there is no one particular “hero” in the film, despite the unassuming jovial figure of Avaran, the secretary of the Rifle Club. The film …
In The Vegetarian, it’s the same set of events, Yeong-hye’s decision to be a vegetarian, but from the perspectives of three close relatives of the protagonist: her husband, her brother-in-law, her sisiter. It’s only when reading part three, from Yeong-hye’s sister’s perspective—in the third person narrative— that it occured to me that we never heard …
When my cinephile friend Akhilesh Sreedharan (from my JNU days), recently suggested the film White God on Mubi, I was immediately curious. I have never seen an art house film like White God, that has moved me so much. I was literally in tears, by the end of the film. The feeling was similar to …
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