Jugu Abraham is a senior film critic. He has reviewed films for the leading English daily, The Hindustan Times for seven years. He has also interviewed people like Miklos Jansco, Zoltan Fabri, Roman Polanski,, Lindsay Anderson, Peter Brooks, Istvan Gaal, Margarethe von Trotta, Nagisa Oshima and Shohei Imamura among others. Jugu Abraham’s Favourite Films: Solyaris (Tarkovsky's Solaris) Korol Lir (Kozintsev's King Lear) Gamlet (Kozintsev's Hamlet) Runaway Train (Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky) Citizen Kane Death in Venice (Visconti) Hitler--ein film aus Deutschland (Syberberg) 2001--a space odyssey (Kubrick) Stalker (Tarkovsky) Dekalog (Kieslowski) The thin red line (Mallick) La strada (Fellini) Les enfants du paradis (Carne) Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa) Duel (Spielberg) Heat (Mann) Koyaanisqatsi (Reggio) The fifth seal (Zoltan Fabri) Color of pomegranates (Sergei Paradjanov) Tree of wooden clogs (Ermanno Olmi) Pikoor Diary (Satyajit Ray) Khandhar (Mrinal Sen) Shadows of forgotten ancestors (Paradjanov) The seventh seal (Bergman) Umrao Jaan (Muzaffar Ali) Anantaram (Adoor Gopalakrishnan)

Jugu Abraham writes about Indian director Feroz Abbas Khan's 2007 Hindi/English film Gandhi, My Father "He is the greatest father you can have, but he is the one father I wish I did not have"-Harilal Gandhi, ... Aug 27th, 2008 • More on: Film Review, Highlights, Movies, featured

Jugu Abraham writes about Russia's monumental contribution to the cinema of the world Ask an average Indian filmgoer about the film directors Alfred Hitchcock, ... Aug 17th, 2008 • More on: Highlights, Movies, featured, features

Jugu Abraham writes about Stanley Kubrick's 1957 film Paths of Glory... Aug 5th, 2008 • More on: Film Review, Movies, featured

Jugu Abraham writes about Georgian (former Soviet) filmmaker Tengiz Abuladze’s 1987 film Monanieba (Repentance) And art made tongue-tied by authority And folly, doctor-like, controlling skill And simple truth miscall'd simplicity And captain good attending captain ill ---William Shakespeare Sonnet 66, part of the ... Jul 26th, 2008 • More on: Film Review, Highlights, Movies, featured

Jugu Abraham writes about Russian (former Soviet) director Elem Klimov's 1981 film "Agoniya (Agony)" There is much that would intrigue a viewer of Agoniya. Many may not be aware that this film was considered "worthless" in the Soviet Union after ... Jul 7th, 2008 • More on: Film Review, Highlights, Movies, featured

Jugu Abraham writes about German filmmaker Christian Petzold’s 2007 film Yella Germany's Christian Petzold belongs to the new breed of European directors that loves to make films layered with meaning for the astute viewer. Russia's Andrei Zvyagintsev ... Jun 18th, 2008 • More on: Film Review, Highlights, Movies, World Cinema, featured

Jugu Abraham writes about Alfred Hitchcock's 1964 film Marnie This is NOT the stuff that director Hitchcock usually dealt with. The subject and the treatment of the subject are different from most of his other films. Hitchcock was ... Jun 10th, 2008 • More on: Film Review, Highlights, Hollywood, Movies, featured

Jugu Abraham reviews Russian director Grigory Kozintsev’s "Korol Lir" (King Lear) (1971) Time and again people have asked me which movie is my all time favorite. I have often said without much hesitation: the Russian ... May 31st, 2008 • More on: Author's Pick, Film Review, Highlights, Movies, World Cinema, featured