Plus: Reviews of April May 99, Bhool Chuk Maaf and Pune Highway plus
the dope on Mani Ratnam’s upcoming Thug Life. Here are this week's top reads from @TheReel
Neeraj Ghaywan is back at the Cannes Film Festival a decade after
Masaan with Homebound. Starring Ishaan Khatter and Vishal Jethwa, the film explores a friendship tested by ambition and adversity. Ghaywan spoke to Sachin Chatte about how his own experiences found their way into the film, and the role played by Martin Scorsese in shaping the script.
Mani Ratnam teams up once again with his Nayakan hero Kamal Haasan for Thug Life. The film also stars Silambarasan, Trisha Krishnan, Abhirami, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Ashok Selvan, Nasser, Joju George, Mahesh Manjrekar and Sanya Malhotra. In a press meet, Ratnam and Haasan told journalists what to expect from the crime drama.
An authorised biography of eminent Hindi filmmaker Raj Khosla is out,
in time for his birth centenary. An excerpt from the book reveals
Khosla’s mastery in the suspense thriller Woh Kaun Thi?, whose allure
is created in the opening sequence itself.
Satyajit Ray’s Aranyer Din Ratri (1970) has undergone a restoration.
One of Ray’s most unorthodox dramas was premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the presence of its actors Simi Garewal and Sharmila
Tagore. Garewal told Scroll about working with Ray and the effect the
film had on her.
The week’s releases include Bhool Chuk Maaf, which was supposed to be
out on May 9, was pushed because of the Indo-Pak flare-up, was then
supposed to be streamed directly on Prime Video, and is now back in
the cinemas.
In Pune Highway, Rahul D’Cunha and Bugs Bhargava Krishna examine the effects of crime on longstanding friendship.
Neil Burger’s Inheritance is about the unusual bequest by a spy to his daughter.
In the ‘Start the week with a film’ series, here’s why you need to
make a date with the hilarious One of Them Days.
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