A Tale of Two Festivals: International Film Festival of India and Experimenta Parichay Patra March 2018 Festival Reports Issue 86 International Film Festival of India, popularly known by its acronym IFFI, rests, like many other events in South Asia, on its past glory and nostalgic recollection. The standard received and widely accepted...
In Defence of A River Called Titas (Ritwik Ghatak, 1973) Parichay Patra March 2017 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 82 Ghatak’s women rarely confront his uncannily mobile camera in Titas Ekti Nadir Naam (A River Called Titas, 1973), they suffer patiently, are violently put asunder, and die. On that fateful day of the...
