Sucheta Chakraborty, Author at Helter Skelter Magazine

Film Review: Eeb Allay Ooo!

Sucheta Chakraborty — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 08:51:46 +0000

The sounds that make up the title of Prateek Vats’s Eeb Allay Ooo! resonate through its length.

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The Bread Earners of Goa

Sucheta Chakraborty — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 07:20:53 +0000

In conversation with filmmaker Sonia Filinto about her film Bread and Belonging, Goa’s perennially shifting demography, and of the intriguing connection between bread and migrants.

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Film Review: Is Love Enough? Sir

Sucheta Chakraborty — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 08:22:04 +0000

In Rohena Gera's Is Love Enough? Sir, the home, closed off from prying, judgemental eyes, is also an empathetic space, allowing conversations and the forging of a connection that could not have developed or existed outside of it.

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A More Permanent Record

Sucheta Chakraborty — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 07:02:00 +0000

Achal Mishra’s Maithili-language film Gamak Ghar is pieced together from tangible and intangible relics from and of an earlier time and place.

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Fault Lines and Paper Trails

Sucheta Chakraborty — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 12:35:02 +0000

In conversation with Sumithra Prasanna about her film Stateless in India, and her experiences of filming through Assam as the state grappled with the repercussions of the N.R.C.

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