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തിങ്കളാഴ്ചയാണ്, നഗരം നെട്ടോട്ടത്തിലാണ്, ശീതീകരിച്ച ഈ ഷോപ്പിംഗ് മാളിൽ, ആകുലതകളാൽ ഉള്ള് പൊള്ളി ഞാനും. ഏറെ സ്വപ്‌നങ്ങൾ പേറി കൊണ്ടായിരുന്നു ഈ മരുഭൂമിയിലേക്ക് കാൽ കുത്തിയത്. ജീവിതം ഞാൻ വരച്ച വരയിലൂടെ നീങ്ങുകയും ചെയ്യുന്നത് കണ്ടപ്പോൾ ഉള്ളിൽ കൊതികളുടെ കാട് പൂക്കുന്നുണ്ടായിരുന്നു. പക്ഷെ വഴിയിൽ വെച്ച് കാലൊന്നിടറി, കൂരാകൂരിരുട്ടിലാണ് ഞാൻ ഇപ്പോൾ. എന്ത് ചെയ്യണം? എങ്ങോട്ട് പോകണം എന്നൊന്നും അറിയില്ല, ഇവിടെ ഈ ഫുഡ്‌ കോർട്ടിൽ വിശപ്പും രുചിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു. പെട്ടെന്നൊരാൾ എന്റെ അടുത്തേക്ക് വന്നു. മനസ്സിന് തീരെ സുഖം ഇല്ലെന്നും അല്പനേരമെങ്കിലും ഞാൻ തങ്ങളോട് സംസാരിച്ചോട്ടെ? എന്നും ചോദിച്ചു. ഏകാന്തതയുടെ ദാഹം അറിയുന്നത് കൊണ്ട് ഞാൻ സമ്മതിച്ചു. പക്ഷെ അദ്ദേഹം എന്റെ വിശേഷങ്ങളാണ് തിരക്കിയത്. പരാതി തീരാത്ത കുട്ടിയെ പോലെ ഞാൻ എന്റെ ദുഃഖങ്ങൾ പങ്കു വെച്ചു, ഒടുവിൽ എന്റെ കണ്ണീരിന്റെ ഉറവ പൊട്ടി. ഞാൻ അദ്ദേഹത്തെ കെട്ടി പിടിച്ചു കരഞ്ഞു. അദ്ദേഹം ഇരുവർക്കും ഭക്ഷണം വരുത്തിച്ചു. "നാട്ടിൽ പോയിട്ട് ഒരുപാട് നാൾ ആയില്ലേ" എന്ന് പറഞ്ഞ എനിക്ക് അല്പം പണവും തന്നു. ഞാൻ ഒരു നിമിഷം നിർവികാരനായി തീർന്നു. ഇതൊരു സ്വപ്നം അല്

 “Today we can say that at last the director writes in film. The image-its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because it is founded on a much higher degree of realism-has at its disposal more means of manipulating reality and of modifying it from within. The film-maker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last, the equal of the novelist.”(Bazin 40)       The pre-eminent film theorist and the founder of the magazine Cahiers du Cinema(1951), Andre Bazin became an inextricable presence in the theoretical world with his distinguished seminal work The Evolution of the Language of Cinema. In his work, this critic who hailed from France contrasted Montage with the movies which employed Realism. He led the debate on authorship with the Cahiers group and argued that the director is the sole possessor of the film. The critics belonged to this group ventured to prove their contention by analysing the idiosyncrasies of the film maker

- Kavya Manoj

-KAVYA MANOJ

- Kavya Manoj

 “It is helpful to understand what the cinema has been, how its magic has worked in the past, while attempting a theory and a practice which will challenge this cinema of the past. Psychoanalytic Theory is thus appropriate here as a political weapon, demonstrating the way the unconscious of patriarchal society has structured the film form.”(Mulvey 803) One of the major revolutionary moments in Film Theory came about when Psychoanalysis  amalgamated with  Feminism to question the status quo of the Phallocentric Mainstream. The seminal text which brought about this radical advancement is Laura Mulvey’s  path-breaking essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. Mulvey  constructed her arguments by grounding them on the foundations established by certain other theorists like Christian Metz and Jean-Louis Baudry. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema was originally written in 1973 and was subsequently published by a leading British journal Screen in 1975. Mulvey also draws upon F

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    Children of Heaven is a 1997 Iranian family drama film written and directed by Majid Majidi. Majid Majidi is a prominent Iranian film director,producer and a screenwriter who started his film career as an actor. In his film,Majidi has touched upon many themes and genres and has won numerous International Awards. The Children of heaven,The Color of Paradise, The Song of Sparrow, Muhammad :The messenger of God, Sunchildren are some of his notable films. The film Children of Heaven premiered in February 1997 at the Tehran Film Festival and was the recipient of several National awards and was nominated for the Best Foreign Language film in 1998. This film was distributed by Miramax. It deals with the story of a brother and sister and their adventure over a pair of lost shoes. In this film we can see an innocent brother and his sister who love each other.  They seldom complained about the family's financial conditions. They adjusted to their circumstances and lived happi

Psycho(1960) is one of the most arresting Psycho-sexual thrillers by the avant-garde film maker Alfred Hitchcock. This variant of Film Noir heralded a new movement named Neo Noir. By featuring pessimism, menacing spectres, perpetual threats and perplexed characters with psychological aberrations this film embodies every trait of Noir Films. It exploited low key light  and masterfully employed shadows and side lighting to accentuate horror. Psycho attempts to unravel the complex mental uncertainties, ambitions and impenetrable psyche of the anti hero protagonist Norman Bates. Amalgamating Freudian and Lacanian concepts, this Psychological thriller became an impregnable narrative which encompasses the protagonist’s concealed fancies and anxieties. His preoccupation with the unacceptable desires and incorrigible crimes buried deep within him, make him a psychologically round and singular character.        This film provides us a comprehensive picturization of the e

-Kavya Manoj

-Kavya Manoj