FILM REVIEWS

GOTRO - a film review               WINDOW FILMS'  second production this year, GOTRO is certainly going to be a success story, I think.                 Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukherjee have been giving us a plethora of films since ' Ichche ' that abound in social anomalies to deal with. After 'Kontho ' this year that went down well with viewers, especially families struggling with health issues that can ruin relationships, it is the poison of divisive sentiments riding high on religious labels that is suffocatin g humanity today. 'Gotro' just hits the nail on the head.                   The plot is a simple and common tale that of an elderly widow, Mukti Devi (Anusuya Majumdar), living alone in the family's ancestral home which is called 'Gobindo Dham' as the family deity happens to be Lord Krishna. Like many young men, her son stays abr...

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD - a film review               Quentin Tarantino’s penchant for western movies and violence is legendary. A celebrated filmmaker of a genre in Hollywood that merges humour with gore, prudence with depravity, Tarantino has given us several commercially successful movies like Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill or even Django Unchained not so long ago with similar steaks running through them. In ‘Once Upon a time in Hollywood’, his ninth film, he returns refreshed, with a beautiful period piece set in 1969, Los Angeles. Written and directed by  Tarantino himself, the movie is a tribute to the chimeric golden days of Hollywood and its decline with a shift from glory to contemporary drama and, perhaps, preoccupation with technology.                It is the miserable story of Rick Dalton, (Leonardo DiCaprio), the star of a TV western series in the 50’s, as his fame and position declin...