Films That Celebrate Maternal Instinct In All Its Complexity May 07, 2021, 15:29 IST
Mothering comes with its own challenges and these films acknowledge that reality.
May 9 is Mother s Day and though the mother figure in Bollywood is usually one dimensional, these four films will help you dig deeper into the lesser-explored aspects of the maternal instinct.
1. Hamid
This Yoodlee film is not a saccharine tribute to motherhood but paints an unlikely protagonist that has not been seen often in mainstream cinema. A grieving Kashmiri woman repeatedly visits police stations to get some information about her missing husband while her young son finds ways to comfort himself to cope with an unspeakable tragedy. In this Aijaz Khan directorial, Rasika Dugal plays the devastated mother with great sensitivity while Talha Arshad Reshi plays Hamid in a National Award-winning performance. Their relationship is tender, frail and even fraught with an occasional sense of despe
International Women’s Day 2021: Powerful Feminist Movies To Watch On IWD Mar 06, 2021, 20:07 IST
These stories about female protagonists spoke of issues that are usually swept under the carpet
Our cinema usually misses out on nuance while making films about women but here is our pick of narratives that got the complexity of female characters and the urgency of the issues faced by them, right.
Ajji: At a time when gender crimes have acquired epidemic proportions, Ajji produced by Yoodlee Films and directed by Devashish Makhija is more relevant than ever. This wrenching story about rape and retribution is a critique not just of the society where even girl children are not safe but of the power structures that protect the perpetrators of the most heinous crimes. The discovery of a little girl’s body in a garbage heap expands into a scathing social commentary and asks tough questions that we need to answer collectively. What’s more, the avenging spirit i
International Womenâs Day 2021: From Thappad to Ajji , powerful women-centric films to watch
These stories about female protagonists spoke of issues that are usually swept under the carpet.
Our cinema usually misses out on nuance while making films about women but here is our pick of narratives that got the complexity of female characters and the urgency of the issues faced by them, right.
Ajji: At a time when gender crimes have acquired epidemic proportions, Ajji produced by Yoodlee Films and directed by Devashish Makhija is more relevant than ever. This wrenching story about rape and retribution is a critique not just of the society where even girl children are not safe but of the power structures that protect the perpetrators of the most heinous crimes. The discovery of a little girlâs body in a garbage heap expands into a scathing social commentary and asks tough questions that we need to answer collectively. Whatâs more, the avenging spirit in the film i
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âOur cinema usually misses out on nuance while making films about women but here is our pick of narratives that got the complexity of female characters and the urgency of the issues faced by them, right.
Ajji
At a time when gender crimes have acquired epidemic proportions, Ajji produced by Yoodlee Films and directed by Devashish Makhija is more relevant than ever. This wrenching story about rape and retribution is a critique not just of the society but of the power structures that protect the perpetrators of the most heinous crimes. The discovery of a little girlâs body in a garbage heap expands into a scathing social commentary and asks tough questions that we need to answer collectively. Whatâs more, the avenging spirit in the film is not that of an all powerful male hero but of a grandmother, an âAjjiâ. The film stars Sushama Deshpande, Sharvani Suryavanshi, Abhishek Banerjee, Sadiya
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These stories about female protagonists spoke of issues that are usually swept under the carpet. Our cinema usually misses out on nuance while making films about women but here is our pick of narratives that got the complexity of female characters and the urgency of the issues faced by them, right. This Women’s Day lets watch these films and celebrate womanhood.
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Ajji: At a time when gender crimes have acquired epidemic proportions, ‘Ajji’ produced by Yoodlee Films and directed by Devashish Makhija is more relevant than ever to celebrate Women’s Day. This wrenching story about rape and retribution is a critique not just of the society where even girl children are not safe but of the power structures that protect the perpetrators of the most heinous crimes. The discovery of a little girl’s body in a garbage heap expands into a scathing social commentary and asks tough questions that we need to answer collectively. What’s m