Written by Kangana Ranaut’s Emergency, which focuses on Indira Gandhi’s tryst with dictatorship, begins with a striking visual. As a girl, Indira is pricked by a rose thorn, suggesting that she will never escape the influence of her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, who always wore the red flower on his coat. But she does. The daughter will do […]
Rhapsodies have been composed around Malayalam movie star Fahadh Faasil’s eyes. After Kishkindha Kaandam, might odes be written for Asif Ali’s peepers too? Ali’s expressive eyes have rarely been put to better use than in Kishkindha Kaandam. Ali marvellously plays a character stoically shouldering emotional burdens almost too heavy to bear. Much of Ali’s performance […]