This Friday,
Ray a modern, dark and twisted take on four of Satyajit Ray’s short stories comes alive on Netflix.
Forget Me Not, inspired by the master storyteller’s Bipin Choudhurir Smritibhram, has been directed by Srijit Mukherji, who has also helmed another short (Bahrupiya, starring Kay Kay Menon) in the anthology. Abhishek Chaubey and Vasan Bala have directed the remaining two.
Over a Zoom call,
The Telegraph caught up with the actors of Forget Me Not Ali Fazal, Shweta Basu Prasad and Shruthy Menon on their experience of being a part of the much-awaited anthology, being directed by Srijit and their Ray favourites.
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If it seems like rather recently that we were heaping praise on
Creepshow’s season two premiere well, it was. With only five episodes in this season, Shudder’s retro horror anthology has ripped by way too fast. Ahead of tomorrow’s season finale, here’s what we’ve loved about the most recent episodes.
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not have seen in the early 1980s but season two has felt a little more of the moment, more directly addressing the times we’re living in now rather than simply giving us new versions of familiar stories about sentient corpses, sinister scarecrows, and monkey’s paw wishes. Thankfully it’s not
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Like millions and millions of kids, I grew up loving Disney movies, including quite a few of the ones with the Princesses â Belle and Cinderella were my favorites. But I also loved media-critical media:
The Simpsons,
Calvin and Hobbes,
Mad Magazine. And all those white Gen-Xers (and your more anti-establishment boomers) instilled a maxim I basically agree with: Disney is evil. So a deep, perhaps correct part of me feels as if, someday, Iâm going to have to issue a dril-style apology and retraction for this article praising content from multinational mass-media conglomerate The Walt Disney Company. Expect a future addendum: âYou do not, under any circumstances, âgotta hand it to them.ââ Because
With films like Swipe, Shehr e Tabassum, Pakistan s Puffball Studio depicts dystopias that feel all too real An app that mirrors mob justice. A dystopia where smiling is the only expression allowed. Pakistan s Puffball Studio and its founder Arafat Mazhar skewer the mechanisms of intolerance and hate through their films. Manik Sharma December 15, 2020 10:58:16 IST Still from Puffball Studio s Swipe
In the animated short film
Shehr e Tabassum, the ‘Supreme Leader’ of a dystopian Pakistan in 2071 passes a law declaring all expressions other than smiling a crime. It’s the state’s way of manufacturing both consent and a flimsy yet persuasive image of a happy civilisation. People who refuse are deemed as traitors. The drugged, exclusionary vision of the future that the short film offers is eerily echoed by the present of many countries around the world