

The idea, she admits, fell onto her lap, at a bar.


But, this is just not sexual, as understood in the BDSM (Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, Sadochism and Masochism) subculture. The filmmaker explores the idea of dominance and submission in relationships. Not only is her cinematic language unlike anything we’ve been exposed to, the theme is also largely alien to the Indian audience.Īctors Rajshri Deshpande and Anshuman Jha play a couple traversing isolation Renowned Australian film critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas who found it to be a “radicalising experience”, said it could “superficially be described as a feminist experimental horror film”. The film travelled to 21 festivals and won nine awards. My Dog is Sick comes close on the heels of Sindhustan (2019), Bhavnani’s last feature-length documentary about the migration story of the Sindhi community told through her own familial history and the tattoos on her body. I think that’s because Sapna has been through so much, and all those experiences shine through in whatever she does, even her home,” Deshpande feels. At one point, I had this feeling of being surrounded by hundreds of people, when there was nobody really. Every object in her home, be it the bed, her side table, or cupboard, relayed an emotion. “It felt like Anshuman and I were playing in her house. The two actors play the couple in Bhavnani’s new outing as filmmaker titled, My Dog is Sick (64 minutes). “Sapna’s house was a character in the film,” feels Rajshri Deshpande, who has joined us for the video chat along with Anshuman Jha. Because if Merida does not make a stand here, she is going to be a doormat for the rest of her life.Barely 12 hours ago, we’d been in this same room, but in a film, watching two lovers traverse isolation-the kind many of us experienced during the Coronavirus-induced lockdown. Careless, maybe(like nobody ever learned anything from "Macbeth" concerning witches in Scotland) but not selfish. Even worse is how the movie harps on Merida's so-called selfishness. But at the same time, Pixar's DNA commingling with Disney's is taking shape, and it's not entirely pretty, as there are also anachronistic silliness and minor vulgarities here. With the entertaining "Brave," Pixar's winning streak of high quality animation continues. All of whom she promptly embarrasses with her superior bow skills, before getting in an argument with her mother and then running away into the forest where she comes across a witch minding her business. But as a princess, she has certain responsibilities that her younger brothers do not, like presiding over a competition of three suitors for her hand in marriage.

In "Brave," Merida would like nothing more than to run around with her bow and arrow all day.
