Plus: Reviews of ‘Haq’, ‘Thode Door Thode Paas’, ‘Maharani season 4’, and more. Here are this week's top reads from The Reel.
To mark Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak’s birth centenary, his nephew, the journalist and writer Shamya Dasgupta, has edited an anthology of 50 essays. Titled Unmechanical, the book includes interviews with Ghatak and his own writings. “I think the subjects he worked with – homelessness, rootlessness, displacement, the search for home, the search for identity, the need for the displaced to find a corner of the world for themselves – are timeless,” Dasgupta told Scroll.
In a village in the hills, women wait for their husbands while eating apples and dodging snakes. Nidhi Saxena’s Secret Of A Mountain Serpent is as enigmatic as it sounds.
The movie Haq revisits the decades-old Shah Bano controversy. Yami Gautam Dhar plays a devout housewife with three children who drags her husband to court after he takes another wife and stops paying her maintenance.
In the film Jatadhara, black magic and religious rituals are one and the same.
The series Thode Door Thode Paas is especially for those who worry about digital addiction. A family elder lays down a challenge: stay away from all devices for six months and earn crores. Easier said than done.
Huma Qureshi is back for the fourth season of Maharani, the series about a reluctant chief minister who becomes an enthusiastic schemer.
Guillermo del Toro’s movie Frankenstein has grand visuals and a gentle Creature.
Baramulla is a horror film set in Kashmir. Children go missing. A cop investigates. Meanwhile, his house appears to be haunted.
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