Dalton

Quintessential film critic. Additionally, music journalist; editor of Cinematic Illusions & the Journal of Indian Cinema; co-author of a book on cinema; founder of the Cinema Society of India, which screens films; CEO of House of Illusions, a film studio that creates meaningful cinema; advisory board member of the Guwahati Asian Film Festival, Kautik International Film Festival, & Indian Film Festival of Cincinnati, USA; former artistic director of the Chalachitram National Film Festival and the Chicago International Indie Film Festival; and founder festival director of the Mumbai International Student Film Festival. He has served on the music jury of Mahatma Gandhi University and on the film jury of the 67th National Film Awards.
  • Wanted

    Whoever thought that spasmodic stress is actually a symptom of superhuman strength! In many ways, Wanted reminds one of the Matrix series, in particular, the ideas of the reluctant ‘chosen one’, the slow-motion shots while a bullet travels in the air, the superhuman reflexes of the lead characters, the...
  • 21

    Money. Everyone could do a lot more for themselves if they have a heck lot of it. And there’s plenty to be had from the casinos in 21. To know how to get it to rolling into your hands, you simply need to be a cool, genius mathematician with...
  • The Lovely Bones

    Heaven is not everything, until you’ve completed what you wished for on earth. In The Lovely Bones, Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan), a fourteen-year old girl bursting with life and on the verge of her first kiss is murdered and finds herself being invited to that place of everlasting happiness,...
  • Valkyrie

    Innumerous assassination bids were made on the life of Adolf Hitler. ‘Valkyrie’ documents the last attempt, at the Wolf’s Lair. The mission consisted of two parts: the assassination, followed immediately by the activation of Operation Valkyrie, an emergency operation originally designed to deploy the Territorial Reserve Army of Germany...
  • Pride and Glory

    If you are part of a family tree of police officers with impeccable principles, and discovered that one of your own kin has been corrupted, what action should and would you take? This is the dilemma that confronts Ray Tierney (Edward Norton) in Pride and Glory. Four New York...
  • Zachariyayude Garbhinikal (Zachariah’s Pregnant Women)

    Precious to life is a mother’s act of carrying a child in her womb. Zachariyayude Garbhinikal (Zachariah’s Pregnant Women) centers on Dr. Zachariah (Lal), a sensitive, caring gynecologist with no child of his own, and his range of patients. The pains of labor as well as the fear of...
  • In the Name of the King

    Professionals in ancient times proudly flaunted their respective profession by adopting it as their family name. In In the Name of the King: a Dungeon Siege Tale, a wandering child who was found and brought up by a farming village wears his profession proudly in his first name. A...
  • Knowing

    Are we here by a series of random accidents and mistakes? Or, is there a grand purpose to our existence? These are the important questions that Professor John Koestler (Nicolas Cage) asks his students, and himself, in ‘Knowing’. Cage is fine in the role of a concerned, hyper-excited single...
  • Deception

    Holing up in office till the midnight hours, alone, lost in work, one can lose out on a lot of super excitement. Luckily for Jonathan (Ewan McGregor) in Deception, something turns up from the blue: he meets an extroverted ladies’ man. Sometimes that’s all it takes, a break, for...