A gold medalist in electrical engineering, Ankur Agarwal currently works as an editor for books in the areas of social sciences, history and business. He believes that a movie review isn't a plotline to intrigue the reader, but the expression of a connection that on one level exists only between the one who viewed the film and the one who made the film, yet on the other level brings up similar or dissimilar thoughts in the minds of others and thus impels and exhorts them to think and maybe even view the film. Ankur loves playing a game of schapfkopf, loves to travel to dusty, old, sooty, camphory temples or staid churches in ignored corners of India, where preferably the sunlight filters in through and not streams in, and tries to make his life much more simpler, unknottier, and leisurely. His favorite film director is David Lean, and George Cukor gives him a very healthy competition.

Ankur Agarwal reviews Goodbye Bafana, also known as Color of Freedom. Goodbye Bafana is another one of those American movies which completely lose the plot what cinema is all about. And instead start dosing you with ... Jul 18th, 2008 • More on: Film Review, Highlights, Movies, World Cinema, featured

Ankur Agarwal writes about Robert Bresson's 1959 masterpiece Pickpocket A minimalistic style, Robert Bresson makes you feel the power of human soul, human hands, human emotions - repressed emotions, rusting intellect, objectless love - ... Jul 1st, 2008 • More on: Film Review, Highlights, Movies, featured

From the famous Three Colors trilogy by Krzystof Kieślowski, Ankur Agarwal reviews here White. Blanc ("White" in English) is easily the film lacking layers in Kieślowski's Trois Couleurs trilogy. Though interestingly it ... Jun 12th, 2008 • More on: Classics, Film Review, French Cinema, Highlights, Movies, World Cinema, featured

Ankur Agarwal reviews Swedish master Ingmar Bergman's 1951 film Sommarlek (Summer Interlude) also known as Illicit Interlude and Summerplay To say a simple thing, yet beautifully, yet effectively, to show a story which hadn't had to use ... May 5th, 2008 • More on: Film Review, Highlights, Movies, World Cinema, featured

Ankur Agarwal writes about his favourite films An "Author's Pick" is always a very bright idea and a very bad idea. Bright, since first of all it enables the reader to have some of the reviews ... Apr 29th, 2008 • More on: Author's Pick, Highlights, Movies

From the famous Three Colours trilogy by Krzystof Kieślowski, Ankur Agarwal reviews here Blue. Bleu (in English, Blue), from the Trois Couleurs trilogy of Krzysztof Kieślowski, is all about the pain of love. In many ... Mar 22nd, 2008 • More on: Film Review, French Cinema, Highlights, Movies, World Cinema, featured

Ankur Agarwal reviews the 2001 entry from Australia for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the Spanish language film La Spagnola. An unconventional film, it's another one in a line of those films which somehow only ... Mar 3rd, 2008 • More on: Film Review, Highlights, Movies, World Cinema, featured

Ankur Agrawal reviews award winning 1976 film The Little Girl Who Lives Down One of the best "little" movies ever made, The Little Girl Who Lives ... Feb 27th, 2008 • More on: Film Review, Hollywood, Movies, featured