Udayakumar Vijayan

Oct 6, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Athmanathan Indrajith |Haider Abbas |Suresh Nellikode |Udayakumar Vijayan

My friends invited me to join them for the screening of ‘Perfect Days’ movie. In spite of my submission work, I decided to go for the screening as they mentioned it was a story of a ‘Toilet Cleaner’ in Japan. As the screening happened in a small room with a huge crowd, me and my friend decided to sit down and watch it. Before the movie, they screened a short introduction video of ‘The Tokyo Toilet’ project, where the three minute video was merely a glorification of the architects of the projects.

Sep 18, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Haider Abbas |Suresh Nellikode |Udayakumar Vijayan |Sunitha Palaveettil

I watched the three-parts docu-series ‘Angry Young Men’ based on the lives and times of the writer duo Salim-Javed, with quite an attention, as both these men, despite the fact, to have changed the tide of Indian cinema, are yet most reviled for the only one fact. They are Muslims or have Muslim names. Their children also have the same.

Sep 17, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Suresh Nellikode |Udayakumar Vijayan |Sunitha Palaveettil |Debarati Gupta

As Canada embraces the beauty of autumn and steps into the chilly onset of winter, the city of Toronto once again witnessed the curtain fall on the ‘festival of festivals.’ Over 250 films, representing 70 countries, captivated an audience of nearly 350,000 across 25 venues over the course of 11 days.

Sep 16, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Sunitha Palaveettil |Debarati Gupta |Vidyarthy Chatterjee |Udayakumar Vijayan

Tathagata Buddha says: “Be The Light Unto Yourself!”Director Pa. Ranjith’s Thangalaan is a surprising package that equals the making of Hollywood magnum opus of the 60’s ‘Mackenna’s Gold’.  It’s also a wayward cinema that redefines how Indian cinema has to be made hereafter. While the North of India got the growing audience to watch the dubbed version of this Tamil movie, down the south, in it’s native state, the audience got split into the below categories. 1.