A gentle, restrained drama about agonizing loss and the need to move forward, Mong bat liu, from Hong Kong, cannot compare with Tennyson’s “Ulysses” or In Memoriam, both written in the shadow of the poet’s loss of dear friend Arthur Henry Hallam. Those are two major works on the subject; writer James Yuen and director […]

A fine psychological-puzzle film, but one with overtones of national history, Jahnu Barua’s I Did Not Kill Gandhi is one of the most moving Hindi films I have seen. Its protagonist is Uttam Chaudhary, who lives with doting daughter Trisha and college-student son Karan; they are all mostly supported by Romu, Uttam’s married elder son […]