Once again, in his terrific This Day That Year series, Subhash K Jha revisits a unique film. This time, he is looking back at Applause Entertainment-Nandita Das’s 2023 Zwigato, and we hear from Das about this excellent film starring Kapil Sharma.
Applause Entertainment and Nandita Das’s seriously underrated film about a food-delivery boy during Covid had Shahana Goswami delivering a knockout performance as the supportive, resourceful wife of her suddenly jobless husband. Is there anything Shahana can’t do?
In Zwigato, Kapil Sharma as a Covid-crushed delivery boy delivers a performance that is keenly observant of reality: the languorous paunchy body language , the endless rounds on two-wheelers, handling difficult insulting customers at work, an invalid mother and two children at home… Kapil brings the entire force of destiny down on his character’s shoulder without making him a crybaby.
There is a beautiful moment where Manas put...
Applause Entertainment and Nandita Das’s seriously underrated film about a food-delivery boy during Covid had Shahana Goswami delivering a knockout performance as the supportive, resourceful wife of her suddenly jobless husband. Is there anything Shahana can’t do?
In Zwigato, Kapil Sharma as a Covid-crushed delivery boy delivers a performance that is keenly observant of reality: the languorous paunchy body language , the endless rounds on two-wheelers, handling difficult insulting customers at work, an invalid mother and two children at home… Kapil brings the entire force of destiny down on his character’s shoulder without making him a crybaby.
There is a beautiful moment where Manas put...
- 3/17/2025
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
During a recent Zoom conversation about “Santosh,” the Oscar-shortlisted international feature, director Sandhya Suri was seated comfortably in a large, nest-like wicker chair that was bolted into the ceiling in her London apartment.
“Oh, I love this seat,” she said. “I only have this one chair in this room, and when I invite friends over, we all want to be in this spot. My daughter reads in here, as well. It’s my happy place.”
The serenity of Suri’s calmly floating chair stands in contrast to “Santosh,” her phenomenal, noir-soaked feature directorial debut that follows a female police officer (Shahana Goswami) investigating the murder of a lower-caste girl in Northern India. The film uses its procedural format to mine deeper as a cultural character study.
“Santosh” is the Oscar submission from the United Kingdom, the country which won the Best International Film award with “The Zone of Interest” 11 months ago.
“Oh, I love this seat,” she said. “I only have this one chair in this room, and when I invite friends over, we all want to be in this spot. My daughter reads in here, as well. It’s my happy place.”
The serenity of Suri’s calmly floating chair stands in contrast to “Santosh,” her phenomenal, noir-soaked feature directorial debut that follows a female police officer (Shahana Goswami) investigating the murder of a lower-caste girl in Northern India. The film uses its procedural format to mine deeper as a cultural character study.
“Santosh” is the Oscar submission from the United Kingdom, the country which won the Best International Film award with “The Zone of Interest” 11 months ago.
- 1/9/2025
- by Joe McGovern
- The Wrap
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