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VIRUNDHU/ THE FEAST

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CINEMA EXPRESS

"I see the film as a lament for what is getting left behind in a changing world"

 

MONEY CONTROL

"Trust Rishi Chandna to lace observational stories of neighbourhood social reality with his touch of allegorical, dark humour, and to find the comical in the most unfunny of places."

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THE SEVENTH ART

"Class, cuisine, Catholicism and climate change intersect in compelling ways"

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GHOL/ THE CATCH

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VARIETY

"Fishes in troubled water"

 

SCREENDAILY

"The Catch’ heads winners at close of HAF"

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SCREENDAILY

"India represented in Sundance Institute January Screenwriters Lab"

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VARIETY

"Juxtaposes the Indian subcontinent’s troubled and violent history with the present day"

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TUNGRUS

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GLOBE AND MAIL

"How a Mumbai familys pet rooster helped the Tungrus director break into filmmaking"

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FILM COMPANION - ANUPAMA CHOPRA INTERVIEW

"Artist to watch for"

 

THE HINDU

"Fair is fowl and fowl is fair"

SCROLL

"A family gets into a flap over its eccentric pet rooster"

FILM COMPANION REVIEW

"An illuminating behavioural drama"

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SCREEN ANARCHY

"15 minutes of tragicomic absurdity"

 

INDIAN EXPRESS

"No spring chicken"

 

FIRST POST

"Chronicles our relationship with pets and food"

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PARTY POSTER

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FILM COMPANION

"How filmmaker Rishi Chandna uses Mumbai’s poster culture to reveal unexpected things"

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SCROLL

"A typical Mumbai hustle in short film ‘Party Poster’"

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ASIAN MOVIE PULSE

"Combination of social commentary and ironic humor actually permeates the whole movie"

 

SCREEN ANARCHY

"Rinse, Repeat"

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FIRSTPOST

"A quintessential Mumbai film"

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NEWS 9LIVE

"A foray into social portraiture"