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Reviews
Faith Connections (2013)
Truly Cinematic and deeply moving
Never have I laughed so much while watching a documentary, Nor I have felt such deep emotion that at least twice my eyes turned wet while watching masterly crafted FAITH CONNECTIONS. I have never seen such a powerful documentary before; which entertains and spiritually uplifts your being -and that too I'm an atheist!
Brilliantly captured destinies among thickest crowds; I believe the Kumbh Mela gathering holds a world record for highest number of people congregating in one single place over a month. And that number is staggering 100 million!
This documentary is innovative and truly commences an era of New Wave within the documentary genre where such cinematic merits are are to come by.
A feel good movie, with haunting music score, mesmerizing cinematography and crisp editing kept me awestruck through out its 115minutes of running time.
Pan Nalin once again proves his exceptional talent -and its high time world wakes up to his kind of cinema: fresh, original, entertaining and inspiring!
That Girl in Yellow Boots (2010)
highly overrated!!
India and Indians have habit of making too much noise over too little talent: be it music, masala, meditation or movies. Being Indian myself, I have taken few year long journey looking at so called "new Indian Cinema" and met with disappointment after disappointments. That Girl... is again one such "intellectual-masturbation" actually about a girl who gives blow-jobs while searching for her father in India. The plot extremely weak, fragile structure and absolute no sense of character development. Kashyap once again churns out impulsive lines of images which struggle hard to tell a story, like he has done with his earlier movies. Probable exception of Dev D, his cinema is overall underdeveloped and does not portray any kind of vision, be it entertainment or art. Kashyap remains highly overrated filmmaker. I think he functions better as a celebrity then a film director. He should stick to production and give up acting and directing! My hopes were very high when underrated filmmakers like Pan Nalin and Buddhadeb Dasgupta broke amazing new grounds with movies like UTTARA or SAMSARA. Even Nalin's VALLEY OF FLOWERS is daring attempt at unearthing truly new wave in Indian Cinema. Modern Indian cinema almost reached zenith through Pan Nalin's masterly crafted SAMSARA. Since then India is trying to walk over the troubled water, desperately searching for it's voice -sadly Anurag Kashyap's cinema is not much of a help. Rather a step back.