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April 01, 2014
Without lapsing into a black and white portrayal of the world of the bad doctor who is indifferent to his patients' well-being, Alik Sukh (Ethereal Bliss) evokes subtle nuances in exploring the issues of medical negligence and the doctor's responsibility.
October 01, 2008
The film Maine Gandhi ko Nahin Mara deals with the subject of Alzheimer’s disease. It is the story of Uttam Chaudhary (Anupam Kher), a retired professor who is a Hindi scholar. He is a man of principles and values, great integrity and honesty and is considered a genius. He stays with his daughter...
October 01, 2008
Produced by NRI film director Mira Nair’s company Mirabai Films, and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, AIDS Jaago is a collection of four short films on HIV/AIDS in contemporary India. Made by top directors, they fall in the middle zone between public awareness campaigns and featur...
July 01, 2008
Many people may be under the impression that the United States of America provides safe health care to its people -- health services of the type that they want. But is this true? Does the health care system in the US really permit people to make choices about their health care? The business of be...
April 01, 2008
The United States of America, one of the richest societies in the world, does not provide universal health coverage to all its citizens. This fact has been the focus of many political debates and has also been discussed extensively in the media, both the scientific journals and the popular press....
January 01, 2008
It would be hard to fault Taare Zameen Par's intentions. It works remarkably well both as education and as art. It takes the familiar genre of story-telling in which the obvious disability of the protagonist is redeemed by a spectacular but hitherto unknown talent. The film spans a year ...
July 01, 2007
When she is at her best, Aparna Sen takes us through the corridors of the human mind, opening the doors one by one. She pushes us closer to the protagonists, wanting us to feel their breath. Soon we lose the comfort of objectivity and start looking inwards, we start relating what we see to our in...
April 01, 2007
During the last decade of the nineteenth century, Indian society was in the grip of a religious orthodoxy that had oppressed women for centuries. A few enlightened people such as Raghunath Karve dreamt of liberating women from the clutches of this orthodoxy. Dhyasparva is a film about the life of...
January 01, 2007
The ethics of capital punishment is one topic that rears its head every time someone has been served the sentence. What follows then is a familiar debate flanked by rigid righteousness on one side and cloudy compassion on the other. Needless to mention neither side feels the real pressure of the ...
October 01, 2006
The Constant Gardener. DVD, 129 minutes. Director: Fernando Meirelles.