The sky is blue in Payal Kapadia’s revelatory All We Imagine as Light. It’s in the heathered cornflower blue of morning, still cottoned over with sleep, as well as in the gnashing, striated blues of the afternoon grind. And when the sun gives way to the horizon, indigo blossoms like ink in a well of midnight.
The hues of Kapadia’s blues run so deep that they bleed across the entire canvas of the film, from the support beams of a lumbering pedestrian highway crossing where two characters share a wordless intimacy, to the panels of a bathroom door where blue towels are scrubbed over a blue bin, to the workwear and casual dress of her hospital-worker protagonists. And, of course, the sea, where they all end up by the end of All We Imagine as Light.
That Kapadia is able to render such a richly varied emotional...
The hues of Kapadia’s blues run so deep that they bleed across the entire canvas of the film, from the support beams of a lumbering pedestrian highway crossing where two characters share a wordless intimacy, to the panels of a bathroom door where blue towels are scrubbed over a blue bin, to the workwear and casual dress of her hospital-worker protagonists. And, of course, the sea, where they all end up by the end of All We Imagine as Light.
That Kapadia is able to render such a richly varied emotional...
- 5/26/2024
- by Ryan Coleman
- Slant Magazine
Of the many films set in India that premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Payal Kapadia’s feature debut is the only one to hone in on the country and its character, which it does by focusing on its most populated city, Mumbai. Like London, Paris and New York, Mumbai is a city of contrasts, a melting pot of castes and races, but of its 12.5 million citizens, over half are likely to live in extreme poverty. All We Imagine as Light tells the stories of the people on the breadline, those who are just about getting by, trying to hold onto their homes and their dignity as the city’s wealthy elite buy up and bulldoze their properties.
Kapadia’s documentary background is apparent from the outset, a series of tracking shots through a bustling city market. All the workers are migrants, from villages far and wide, and...
Kapadia’s documentary background is apparent from the outset, a series of tracking shots through a bustling city market. All the workers are migrants, from villages far and wide, and...
- 5/25/2024
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light landed a hearty eight minute standing ovation following its debut this evening at the Cannes Film Festival.
The pic, which screened in the late night competition slot this evening in Cannes, is Kapadia’s debut fiction feature. The pic also made history this evening. Kapadia is the first female Indian filmmaker to screen a movie in the Cannes competition. At the same time, her film is the first Indian production in competition in three decades.
Shot over 25 late summer days in Mumbai, followed by an extra 15 in the rainy western port town of Ratnagiri, the Malayalam-Hindi language feature tells the story of two young women — Prabha, a nurse from Mumbai, and Anu, her roommate. The story opens as Prabha’s daily routine is broken when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Meanwhile, Anu tries in vain to find a...
The pic, which screened in the late night competition slot this evening in Cannes, is Kapadia’s debut fiction feature. The pic also made history this evening. Kapadia is the first female Indian filmmaker to screen a movie in the Cannes competition. At the same time, her film is the first Indian production in competition in three decades.
Shot over 25 late summer days in Mumbai, followed by an extra 15 in the rainy western port town of Ratnagiri, the Malayalam-Hindi language feature tells the story of two young women — Prabha, a nurse from Mumbai, and Anu, her roommate. The story opens as Prabha’s daily routine is broken when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Meanwhile, Anu tries in vain to find a...
- 5/23/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
There is a moment early on in Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine as Light” — her second feature after 2021’s lyrical hybrid doc “A Night of Knowing Nothing” — that exemplifies this gently coruscating movie’s peculiar beauty. Prabha (Kani Kusruti) a hardworking nurse with tired eyes rides the commuter train home at the end of another long day, gazing out at the glimmering blur of the city. Her life is anything but a fairground and yet, clinging to a pole to steady herself with the rushing night air stirring her hair, she could almost be riding a carousel. Just two features into her young career, Kapadia has established her rare talent for finding passages of exquisite poetry within the banal blank verse of everyday Indian life.
Prabha works in a slightly shabby local hospital, where she spends her days tending to even the most difficult cases with a conspiratorial compassion...
Prabha works in a slightly shabby local hospital, where she spends her days tending to even the most difficult cases with a conspiratorial compassion...
- 5/23/2024
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes film festival
Payal Kapadia’s glorious Cannes competition selection is an absorbing story of three nurses that is full of humanity
There is a freshness and emotional clarity in Payal Kapadia’s Cannes competition selection, an enriching humanity and gentleness which coexist with fervent, languorous eroticism and finally something epiphanic in the later scenes and mysterious final moments. Kapadia’s storytelling has something of Satyajit Ray’s The Big City and Days and Nights of the Forest; it is so fluent and absorbing.
All We Imagine As Light is the story of three nurses in modern-day Mumbai: Prabha (Kani Kusruti), Anu (Divya Prabha) and Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam). Each has come to the big city from smaller home towns. Prabha and the younger, flightier Anu are roommates and Anu (having only just moved in) is already asking the more sober and sensible Prabha to cover her share of the rent.
Payal Kapadia’s glorious Cannes competition selection is an absorbing story of three nurses that is full of humanity
There is a freshness and emotional clarity in Payal Kapadia’s Cannes competition selection, an enriching humanity and gentleness which coexist with fervent, languorous eroticism and finally something epiphanic in the later scenes and mysterious final moments. Kapadia’s storytelling has something of Satyajit Ray’s The Big City and Days and Nights of the Forest; it is so fluent and absorbing.
All We Imagine As Light is the story of three nurses in modern-day Mumbai: Prabha (Kani Kusruti), Anu (Divya Prabha) and Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam). Each has come to the big city from smaller home towns. Prabha and the younger, flightier Anu are roommates and Anu (having only just moved in) is already asking the more sober and sensible Prabha to cover her share of the rent.
- 5/23/2024
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The first iteration of the Cannes Film Festival, planned for 1939, was scuppered when Germany invaded Poland to trigger the start of World War II. But when the festival finally got off the ground in 1946, Indian cinema came out swinging. Mounted shortly after the conclusion of the war, the first “real” Cannes Film Festival featured competition entries from Billy Wilder (The Lost Weekend), Roberto Rossellini (Open City), and David Lean (Brief Encounter). In the spirit of post-war peace and reconciliation, the competition jury, headed by French historian Georges Huisman, handed the top prize — then the Grand Prix — to films from 11 of the 18 countries represented that year.
This included India, with Chetan Anand’s social-realist drama Neecha Nagar, and, for a decade at least, the country was a regular fixture in Competition. After Anand came V. Shantaram with Amar Bhoopali (1952), then Raj Kapoor with Awaara (1953), and Bimal Roy with Do Bigha Zamin...
This included India, with Chetan Anand’s social-realist drama Neecha Nagar, and, for a decade at least, the country was a regular fixture in Competition. After Anand came V. Shantaram with Amar Bhoopali (1952), then Raj Kapoor with Awaara (1953), and Bimal Roy with Do Bigha Zamin...
- 5/18/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
"I'm sending you kisses through the clouds." The first festival promo trailer has debuted for a film titled All We Imagine As Light, made by a young Indian filmmaker named Payal Kapadia. It will be premiering at the prestigious 2024 Cannes Film Festival this month as the first Indian film in Main Competition since 1994 and one of just four female-directed features in the section this year. It's one of my most anticipated! The Mumbai-set story follows two nurses & roommates who head off on trip to a beach town to find a space where their desires can manifest. The cast features Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, and Hridhu Haroon. Prabha's routine is disrupted when she receives an odd gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. They escape to a coastal town which...
- 5/8/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Kaatera is an unusually good Kannada film that talks about caste discrimination, albeit on a surface level. Any film that brings up the subject of caste discrimination and how rampant it still is in many parts of south India needs to be appreciated. Kaatera not only speaks about the discrimination but also the efforts of the landlord to kill the morale of the village, which are the core reasons behind the villagers either killing themselves or becoming destitute.
Spoilers Ahead
Who Were The Villagers Waiting For?
The film opens in the year 1989, and the villagers were collecting money to make sure the person who was wronged many years ago could come back for the village festival. One of the prominent faces of the village, Mahadevanna, wanted to make sure his brother-in-law would make it back to town, claiming the title he won for the village festival many years ago. They...
Spoilers Ahead
Who Were The Villagers Waiting For?
The film opens in the year 1989, and the villagers were collecting money to make sure the person who was wronged many years ago could come back for the village festival. One of the prominent faces of the village, Mahadevanna, wanted to make sure his brother-in-law would make it back to town, claiming the title he won for the village festival many years ago. They...
- 2/11/2024
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
Legendary classical singer Prabha Atre passed away following a brief illness at a private hospital here on Saturday, family sources said.
Prabha was 91 and had complained of some breathing issues, but succumbed when she reportedly suffered a cardiac arrest while being rushed to a private hospital this morning.
Conferred the Padmashri (1990), Padma Bhushan (2002) and Padma Bhushan (2022), plus many other national-international honours, Prabha was an exponent of the Kirana Gharana music school, excelling in rendition of khayals, thumris, ghazal, dadri, bhajans and natyasangeet.
Prabha had penned books on music composition — ‘Swarangini’ and ‘Swaranjanee’, is credited with inventing new Raagas like ‘Apurva Kalyan’, ‘Madhur Kauns’, ‘Darbari Kauns’, ‘Patdeep-Malhar’, ‘Shiv Kali’, ‘Tilang-Bhairav’ and ‘Ravi Bhairav’.
She composed music for a full-length dance recital ‘Natya Prabha’, a music composition adapted for jazz by a top Netherlands artist, and also created music for musical-dramas or sangeetikas.
Prabha was 91 and had complained of some breathing issues, but succumbed when she reportedly suffered a cardiac arrest while being rushed to a private hospital this morning.
Conferred the Padmashri (1990), Padma Bhushan (2002) and Padma Bhushan (2022), plus many other national-international honours, Prabha was an exponent of the Kirana Gharana music school, excelling in rendition of khayals, thumris, ghazal, dadri, bhajans and natyasangeet.
Prabha had penned books on music composition — ‘Swarangini’ and ‘Swaranjanee’, is credited with inventing new Raagas like ‘Apurva Kalyan’, ‘Madhur Kauns’, ‘Darbari Kauns’, ‘Patdeep-Malhar’, ‘Shiv Kali’, ‘Tilang-Bhairav’ and ‘Ravi Bhairav’.
She composed music for a full-length dance recital ‘Natya Prabha’, a music composition adapted for jazz by a top Netherlands artist, and also created music for musical-dramas or sangeetikas.
- 1/13/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Former beauty queen and actress Manasvi Mamgai will be seen in the 17th edition of the upcoming controversial reality show ‘Bigg Boss’. A source close to the entertainment portal confirmed the news that Manasvi will be seen in the show, which has the theme of couples vs singles, hosted by Bollywood superstar Salman Khan.
Manasvi won the title of Femina Miss India World 2010 and represented India at Miss World 2010. She previously won the titles of Miss India Tourism International and Miss Tourism International 2008. In 2016, she, became the Indian Ambassador to the Republican Hindu Coalition.
The actress was born in Delhi but grew up in Chandigarh. Her mother Prabha, is from Uttarakhand.
In 2014 she played the antagonist, Marina opposite Ajay Devgn in the Eros International studio movie ‘Action Jackson’, directed by Prabhu Deva.
Manasvi appeared on the famous Indian comedy show ‘Comedy Nights with Kapil’ along with her ‘Action Jackson’ star cast.
Manasvi won the title of Femina Miss India World 2010 and represented India at Miss World 2010. She previously won the titles of Miss India Tourism International and Miss Tourism International 2008. In 2016, she, became the Indian Ambassador to the Republican Hindu Coalition.
The actress was born in Delhi but grew up in Chandigarh. Her mother Prabha, is from Uttarakhand.
In 2014 she played the antagonist, Marina opposite Ajay Devgn in the Eros International studio movie ‘Action Jackson’, directed by Prabhu Deva.
Manasvi appeared on the famous Indian comedy show ‘Comedy Nights with Kapil’ along with her ‘Action Jackson’ star cast.
- 10/9/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Former beauty queen and actress Manasvi Mamgai will be seen in the 17th edition of the upcoming controversial reality show ‘Bigg Boss’. A source close to the entertainment portal confirmed the news that Manasvi will be seen in the show, which has the theme of couples vs singles, hosted by Bollywood superstar Salman Khan.
Manasvi won the title of Femina Miss India World 2010 and represented India at Miss World 2010. She previously won the titles of Miss India Tourism International and Miss Tourism International 2008. In 2016, she, became the Indian Ambassador to the Republican Hindu Coalition.
The actress was born in Delhi but grew up in Chandigarh. Her mother Prabha, is from Uttarakhand.
In 2014 she played the antagonist, Marina opposite Ajay Devgn in the Eros International studio movie ‘Action Jackson’, directed by Prabhu Deva.
Manasvi appeared on the famous Indian comedy show ‘Comedy Nights with Kapil’ along with her ‘Action Jackson’ star cast.
Manasvi won the title of Femina Miss India World 2010 and represented India at Miss World 2010. She previously won the titles of Miss India Tourism International and Miss Tourism International 2008. In 2016, she, became the Indian Ambassador to the Republican Hindu Coalition.
The actress was born in Delhi but grew up in Chandigarh. Her mother Prabha, is from Uttarakhand.
In 2014 she played the antagonist, Marina opposite Ajay Devgn in the Eros International studio movie ‘Action Jackson’, directed by Prabhu Deva.
Manasvi appeared on the famous Indian comedy show ‘Comedy Nights with Kapil’ along with her ‘Action Jackson’ star cast.
- 10/9/2023
- by Agency News Desk
Every streaming platform these days, especially the Indian ones, has one genre that has been milked to death: the crime thriller or murder investigation. It has been presented in a million different ways. A lot of them are similar to each other, and only a few manage to stand out. In the span of a few months, Disney+ Hotstar has released three regional shows in the same genre, and each of them has left a mark of their own. Be it Shaitan, a Telugu language crime thriller about an ex-Naxal, or Kerala Crime Files, a Malayalam language murder investigation, the platform is acing so far at bringing some original content in this gritty genre. Adding to this list is Pavan Sadineni directed Dayaa, a Telugu-language web series that was released on the platform on August 4th, 2023.
Dayaa is the story of the eponymous protagonist, a partially deaf man who is...
Dayaa is the story of the eponymous protagonist, a partially deaf man who is...
- 8/8/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
Mumbai, July 16 (Ians) 25 years after he rocked the Hindi cinema with his film ‘Satya’, actor J. D. Chekravarthy is set to be seen in the upcoming streaming series titled ‘Dayaa’. The series is a multi-lingual crime-thriller, and tells an unusual story of a freezer van driver with a dark past.
The series has been directed by Pavan Sadineni, and also stars Ramya Nambeesan, and Eesha Rebba in lead roles. The crime thriller follows the life of Daya (played by Chekravarthy) on a fateful night when he discovers a woman’s body in his van. His life takes an unexpected turn as he becomes involved in crime and bloodshed.
Daya is a reserved freezer van driver residing discreetly in a quaint village near the Kakinada port area. Within his modest existence, he cherishes his spirited wife, Alivelu, who wholeheartedly adores him.
Talking about his character, Chekravarthy said: “‘Dayaa’ is a very...
The series has been directed by Pavan Sadineni, and also stars Ramya Nambeesan, and Eesha Rebba in lead roles. The crime thriller follows the life of Daya (played by Chekravarthy) on a fateful night when he discovers a woman’s body in his van. His life takes an unexpected turn as he becomes involved in crime and bloodshed.
Daya is a reserved freezer van driver residing discreetly in a quaint village near the Kakinada port area. Within his modest existence, he cherishes his spirited wife, Alivelu, who wholeheartedly adores him.
Talking about his character, Chekravarthy said: “‘Dayaa’ is a very...
- 7/16/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
KollywoodApart from Vikram, the ‘Thangalaan’ cast includes notable actors like Parvathy Thiruvothu, Malavika Mohanan, and Pasupathy, and is produced by Ke Gnanavel Raja under the banner of Studio Green. An exclusive making video of Pa Ranjith’s latest film Thangalaan was released on Monday, April 17. The release date of this video also happens to be the birthday of Vikram, the film’s lead actor. The nearly two minute video showed snippets of the making of the fighting and battle scenes with Vikram leading a community. The actor was seen sporting a loin cloth and carrying a large staff while heading into battle. Men from the community are seen playing instruments indicating that they too might be going to battle. Taking to Instagram, Pa Ranjith shared a poster from Thangalaan and wished Vikram on his birthday. He said, “Happy birthday to my #Thangaalan. Presenting you a slice of flesh, a grand...
- 4/17/2023
- by AkchayaaR
- The News Minute
ReviewThe film recognises the strangle-hold of grief, yet it asks us to fight for our joys from deep within our darkest moments.Bharathy SingaravelTrailerScreengrab/CourtesyViacom18StudiosDebutant director Ra Karthik sets up Nitham Oru Vaanam on a premise that sounds like a typical Kollywood story - a hero wallows in bitterness because the bride his parents found for him breaks off the marriage, choosing her boyfriend instead. And then, Karthik surprises us with a quirky, moving tale about second chances and what love can really mean. The film opens to Arjun (Ashok Selvan), sitting at a bus stop in Bhubaneswar, ruefully telling a fellow traveller, Shubha (Ritu Varma) about his broken off engagement. Subha is a seasoned solo backpacker, clearly happiest when she’s on the road. Arjun, on the other hand, can barely keep track of his own luggage and hates sleeping anywhere else but in his own bed. How...
- 11/4/2022
- by BharathyS
- The News Minute
ReviewRead between the lines, and 'Theerppu' starring Prithviraj can be read as a commentary on revisionist history and political appropriation. But the lines themselves have little solid to offer.Lakshmi PriyaWhen the character posters for Prithviraj starrer Theerppu were released via the actor’s social media handles a week ago, a meme fest erupted in the Malayalam internet space. Is this a meeting of the Nair Service Society, many pondered, as posters featuring Indrajith Sukumaran as Kalyan ‘Menon’, Hannah Reji Koshi as Prabha ‘Nair’, Vijay Babu as Ram Kumar ‘Nair’, Sreekanth Murali as simply a ‘Nair’, and Shaju Sreedhar as ‘Menon’, all came out one after another. Right on track came the posters featuring Saiju Kurup as Parameshwaran ‘Potty’, which denotes another Upper Caste surname like Nair, and Prithviraj as Abdulla ‘Marakkar’ — a Muslim for a change, but an ‘elite’ one nonetheless. However, Theerppu makes one thing clear early on.
- 8/25/2022
- by LakshmiP
- The News Minute
Cannes Best Doc Laureate Payal Kapadia Next Racks Up Production Partners for Petit Chaos (Exclusive)
One year after she dazzled at the Cannes Festival, winning its Golden Eye for best documentary for “A Night of Knowing Nothing,” Payal Kapadia’s fiction debut “All We Imagine as Light,” has attracted the most potent production partner support of any project introduced at this year’s Locarno Match Me!
“Night’s” producers. Petit Chaos’ Thomas Hakim, Julien Graff in France and Ranabir Das (also Dp and editor on “Night”) at India’s Another Birth will produce “Light.”
Also on board, confirmed early July, is Oliver Pere at Arte France Cinéma. Further co-producers take in Zico Maitra and Aastha Singh, Frank Hoeve, Gilles Chanial.
A potential sign of a project positively courted by producers, the multilateral backing is hardly surprising. “All We Imagine as Light” is highly awaited after “A Night of Knowing Nothing,” a film in which “a palimpsest of dusky imagery, reflective narration and evocative score create...
“Night’s” producers. Petit Chaos’ Thomas Hakim, Julien Graff in France and Ranabir Das (also Dp and editor on “Night”) at India’s Another Birth will produce “Light.”
Also on board, confirmed early July, is Oliver Pere at Arte France Cinéma. Further co-producers take in Zico Maitra and Aastha Singh, Frank Hoeve, Gilles Chanial.
A potential sign of a project positively courted by producers, the multilateral backing is hardly surprising. “All We Imagine as Light” is highly awaited after “A Night of Knowing Nothing,” a film in which “a palimpsest of dusky imagery, reflective narration and evocative score create...
- 8/7/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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