Meenakshi Shedde

Oct 11, 2024 | forbesindia.com | Meenakshi Shedde

Film review: Sandhya Suri's 'Santosh' is powerful, with charismatic leads A film about a window who inherits her husband's job in the police force, Santosh is a Hindi language film, but an international co-production from the UK, India, Germany and France. Meenakshi Shedde details how the film's power rests in its details, on the sidelines of the Toronto International Film Festival

Oct 8, 2024 | forbesindia.com | Payal Kapadia |Meenakshi Shedde

Film review: 'All We Imagine As Light' by Payal Kapadia The buzzy film, which won the prestigious Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, didn't make the cut for India's Oscars entry. However, the film has garnered wide-spread appeal and made headlines around the world. Here's Meenakshi Shedde's review of the fantastical, poetic film

Oct 7, 2024 | forbesindia.com | Meenakshi Shedde

Sauna Day: The Indian-Estonian film about men embracing intimacy Co-directors Anna Hints and Tushar Prakash take us through the journey of 'Sauna Day', a short film about the ritual of men immersing themselves into Estonian smoke saunas at the end of a hard work day, as is the ritual. Here, men seek purification of their bodies, but also their souls—and are forced to grapple with ideas of intimacy in the process

Sep 19, 2024 | forbesindia.com | Meenakshi Shedde

'Tired of cliched 'brown' roles, I wrote my own': Lawrence Valin Born and raised in France, Lawrence Valin grew up fascinated by cinema in his native language, Tamil. His thrilling French-Tamil film, 'Little Jaffna', came after he tried to break it as an actor in the French film industry, but was disappointed with the roles he was being typecast in

Sep 18, 2024 | forbesindia.com | Meenakshi Shedde

The filmmaker and actors talk about the 'insane story' of 'Superboys of Malegaon', why it had to be made into a film, and how it changed their perspective on life