The essence of a documentary lies in its documentation of the subject. Tokyo Banana stays true to this credo. It follows the lives of three artists from Tokyo striving to make it big in show business. Tokyo Banana shares their experiences and recounts their challenges. We meet the people around them, who have stood steadfast through their struggles. We also…
Someone once said that ‘weapons have not killed a single being since the start of time. It was always a human, wielding the weapon, that did the killing’. But, a weapon in one’s hand, is a manifestation of power. It gives the wielder the courage to confront any situation and even to take a life if he so desires. The…
Writing a review for a work of art is not always the easiest of things to do. Understanding the artist’s inspiration, his signature style and expression and its interpretations, are concepts that remain fluid between the work of art and those who consume it. As no two people would or should react to a trigger identically, interpretations of a work…
Coop is a timeless story of the triumph of the human spirit. It is the story of young Gabriel Gonzales, a promising athlete with his eyes set on the 2024 Olympics who in a cruel turn of fate, he loses his friends and his legs in a road accident. Riddled with survivor’s guilt, Gabe is about to slip into depression,…
One in a Trillion – Escape, is a ride into the future. It a peep into a world, two thousand years more advanced. A world where interplanetary and intergalactic travel is the norm. It is the story of a time where cities are packed into boxes and transported across space and time, to be unboxed in a different planet at…
The Crownsville Hospital in Maryland, in its history of a 100 years, is a testimony to how modern medicine has addressed mental illness. It is an example of how institutions can disintegrate under bad management and state apathy. Founded, at the beginning of the twentieth century, for the mentally ill, in the black population, the hospital was built by patients…