Ask anyone who travels for pleasure and they’d say how it’s always the journey that matters more than the destination; it’s intriguing how that’s a metaphor for life itself. Prime Video’s latest Tamil original Sweet Kaaram Coffee, cut from that same cloth, is a slice-of-life series that explores how stepping out for some fresh air will often be rewarded with …
‘Aaj yeh basant thoda bawla hai’ is a lyrical complaint of a polity fractured. Even the fire surrounding the title ‘Afwaah’ is surely symbolic of a society with multiple weaknesses begging to be exploited by rumours and gyan from the self-appointed gyanis aplenty on social media - an epidemic we are not fighting but succumbing to. Dirty politics is even …
Sudhir Mishra’s latest film explores the dark side of social media. Rahab has ended up a hapless pawn in the hateful and false social media campaigns run by Nivi’s fiance, a politician who does not mind fanning communal tensions for political gains. “Afwaah is an exceptional film that explores important themes while delivering a gripping and entertaining story in the …
Director Sudhir Mishra has this penchant for filling our plate with seemingly disparate elements that come together to provide a heady supper as a chaotic night progresses into darkness. This week, Mishra navigates yet another desperate night whose morning seems distant as he dissects the anatomy of afwaah and how it spirals out of control when social media is employed …
There is a dialogue in in the film: ‘Achhi kahaniyaan woh hain jisme tark ho, jo aapko provoke karein to ask why’. That’s precisely my view after watching Sudhir Mishra’s thought-provoking and gripping political drama, Afwaah. Subtly yet strongly, the film turns out to be a social commentary on various things — from the current political scenario in the country, …
