Saturday, April 27, 2024

Afeef Ahmed

Afeef Ahmed, a graduate from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Gandhinagar, is an independent author and researcher.

Sunday Socials and Monday Marriages: Watching ‘Thikalaazcha Nischayam’

‘Thinkalaazcha Nischayam’ appears as an interesting watch for everyone who is looking for new terrains of storytelling.

Revisiting IFFR: Watching Indian Cinema in a European Festival

The fiftieth edition of the International Film Festival of Rotterdam has come to a close in the last week. The festival programme was divided...
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Limits and politics of representation: Watching Pebbles

Pebbles (Titled as Koozhangal in Tamil) came into the limelight by securing the Tiger Award for best film, at the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). Directed by Vinothraj P.S, The film revolves around a day of a father and small school-going son, settled in a draught ridden landscape of rural Tamil Nadu.

The ethics of seeing: Watching Halal Love Story

The cinema tries to trace a specific time period of a Muslim everyday.
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‘Dialect’ics of performance: An ode to Mammootty

Thus, all the individualistic improvements apart, our experience of seeing Mammootty on screen is always strongly mediated by our history of discursive engagements with various on/off-screen experiences of Mammootty, as an actor and as a public personality.

Recovering the ‘political’ from ‘aesthetic’: Watching ‘Nasir’

I think it’s important to remark the contradictions and slight manipulations on the structural anatomy of the film’s content.
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