Blue Jasmine

This 2013 film by Woody Allen revolves around the life of a former New York socialite and how she copes with disillusionment after she loses everything. Cate Blanchett won an Academy Award for her stellar performance.

Black

Arguably Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s best movie, Black follows a deaf and blind girl, her teacher and their struggles.

That Girl in Yellow Boots

Directed by Anurag Kashyap, this film is centered around a woman in the quest of finding her father and all the travails she undergoes in the process.

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“Oh Captain, My Captain” were words immortalized in the poem by Walt Whitman.

This poem was written as sort of an elegiac rendition after the assassination of the then President Abraham Lincoln. It signifies how America was left without a guiding light after his demise.

The penultimate sequence in ‘Dead poets society’ echoes the same profound sentiment with the same profound lines.

This movie, directed by Peter Weir and starring Robin Williams, that won the Academy Award for best original screenplay, is for anyone who bears association with the written word.

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One of the most compelling images in Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Schindler’s list’ (A movie documenting the true story of how a German businessman Oskar Schindler who comes to the aide of Jewish workers, saving them from Nazi execution) is the girl in the red coat.

Film makers love motifs. They convey notions and make for an interesting visual. Motifs, in cinema add to the narrative through imagery. Sometimes, they may be used like that of a ‘refrain’ in poetry – to expound the central theme.

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Expression knows no bounds. And cinema is a form of expression.

The year that passed witnessed the tumult of censorship in abundance- in films and elsewhere. These triggered a barrage of criticism and prior norms were reinstated.

Barring the reprobative reputation that Indian media bears, they admittedly manage to bring every Indian’s voice to the fore. Yes, we are dabbling in political, social flurry but were dabbling in all the right places, hankering for a change and I’m affirmative that we as nation will get there.

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