Nandini Ramnath

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Sri Lankan director Prasanna Vithanage was a teenager in 1978 when he first encountered one of the most beguiling chronicles of adolescence. Sumitra Peries’s film Gehenu Lamai, about a young girl’s formative experiences, resembled an Impressionist painting in its intricacy and beauty, said Vithanage. “Sumitra had a distinctive vision and used the cinematic language in a poetic manner,” observed Vithanage, who is among his country’s most prominent filmmakers.

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From the makers of Panchayat comes a variation of the urban-fish-in-rural-pond story. Gram Chikitsalay takes up the worthy cause of severely neglected rural health care. In Panchayat, Abhishek reluctantly works as a village council’s secretary. In Gram Chikitsalay, Prabhat willingly relocates to the fictitious Bhatkandi hamlet in Jharkhand to serve as the medical officer at its public health centre. Noble intent swiftly gives way to ignoble reality.

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By vividly challenging the true crime project’s claim to verity and certitude, Pushkar Mahabal’s Black White & Gray elegantly upends the filmmaking genre. The six-episode Hindi series on Sony LIV has two parallel strands. Filmmaker Daniel Gray is pursuing a true crime documentary about a set of murders attributed to a young man. In the other strand, actors play characters associated with these killings.

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In a typical dialogue exchange in Kull, a woman asks her sister, when was the last time we had a cup of tea in peace? Never, as it turns out – seconds later, the siblings are behaving like drunken men in a pub who feel compelled to brawl without quite knowing why. Anything that could go downhill rapidly does in Kull The Legacy of the Raisingghs, to give the show its full fortune-baiting title.

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Pushkar Mahabal, the director of the terrifying thriller Welcome Home, turns his unsparing gaze on the true crime genre for his new project. The Sony LIV series Black, White & Gray – Love Kills is a meta-fiction narrative with two intertwined strands: a mockumentary about a crime that is supposed to be real, and the restaging of the crime. A young man from a working-class background is in hiding after being accused of four murders.