Category: Indian Films
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่ถ FIRST IMPRESSIONS ่ถ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] โOld Anklets, Modern Cages: What Pakeezah Still Gets Right About Being an Indian Womanโ by Swapna Sanchita Kamal Amrohi (director). Pakeezah (Pure One), 1972. 147 min. There are films…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] โOld Anklets, Modern Cages: What ๐๐๐๐๐๐ง๐โ Still Gets Right About Being an Indian Womanโ by Swapna Sanchita](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/kamal-amrohi-director.-pakeezah-pure-one-.jpg?w=750)
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Anand Patwardhan, Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (The World is Family), 2023. 96 min. “เฎฏเฎพเฎคเฏเฎฎเฏ เฎเฎฐเฏ! เฎฏเฎพเฎตเฎฐเฏเฎฎเฏ เฎเฏเฎณเฎฟเฎฐเฏ!” (โEvery place is our homeland, everyone is our kinโ)โthese words from the Tamil…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] โBetween Memory and History: Anand Patwardhan’s ๐๐๐ ๐ข๐โ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐พ๐ข๐ก๐ข๐๐๐๐๐๐โ by Kathiravan Annamalai](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/anand-patwardhan-vasudhaiva-kutumbakam-the-world-is-family-.png?w=1024)
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Shuchi Talati (director), Girls Will Be Girls, 2024. 118 min. Female sexuality has long remained one of the most stringently policed and anxiously mediated territories. The erotic interiority of…
![[REVIEW] โShuchi Talatiโs ๐บ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ต๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐ : A Stirring, Sublime Portrait of Becomingโ by Ananya Singh](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/girls-will-be-girls-2.webp?w=780)
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Kumar Shahani (director) Maya Darpan, 1972. 107 min. Kumar Shahani (1940-2024), one of the doyens of Indian parallel cinema breathed his last on 24 February this year.…
![[REVIEW] โAn Aesthetic Exploration of the Trials and Tribulations of a Woman: Kumar Shahaniโs ๐๐๐ฆ๐ ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐โ by M S Murali Krishna](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/maya-darpan-the-illusory-mirror-1972.jpeg?w=1024)
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