Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The film introduces us to two men, Nandu and Brian. They are confronted with a dead body inside the trunk of their car in ...
We live during something of a horror-film renaissance. In recent years, the genre has supplied not just scares but thoughtful critiques of social ills. Much has been written about masterpieces like ...
Shot in the once utopian, now decaying Anglo-Indian community of McCluskiegunj, brittle, late 1970s-set “A Death in the Gunj” tells the story of a sensitive university student unraveling while on a ...
A Death in the Gunj makes me bow my 63-year-old head to Konkona for entering the arena of direction with such aplomb, writes Anjan Dutt To evoke real fear and the threat of violence is a rarity in ...
The film is based on a short story by Konkona Sen Sharma’s father Mukul Sharma, which was inspired by true events. A Bengali family visits McCluskiegunj (formerly in Bihar and now in Jharkhand) to ...
When you hear the title ‘A Death In The Gunj‘, what does it evoke in your already anxious mind? A mystery laden with someone’s gruesome death where you easily pinpoint fingers on the most vicious ...
The coming-of-age drama, the directorial debut of actress Konkona Sen Sharma, had its world premiere at Toronto. By Nyay Bhushan The Mumbai Film Festival will once again throw the spotlight on India’s ...
The first time I saw Konkona Sen Sharma’s A Death In The Gunj I was immediately taken in by the real and relatable family dynamics. On the second viewing I can’t get over the overriding harmony of her ...
“Don’t come to our house at night,” warns science writer-journalist Mukul Sharma, “I still do planchette all the time.” Sitting in the sun-washed living room of his Gurgaon house, where he lives with ...
Konkona Sensharma’s directorial debut A Death In The Gunj is set in McCluskieganj, nearly 60 kilometres from Jharkhand’s capital Ranchi. It was home to the hundreds of Anglo-Indian families whose ...