Anurag Kashyap’s Paanch is a gritty, controversial 2003 crime drama—his directorial debut—about five reckless friends in a rock band whose lives spiral into violence, drugs, and murder, a film that remained unreleased due to censorship battles over its dark themes.
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by Art House Cinema Desk | Jun 13, 2026 | Hindi, Santosh Sivan
Tahaan (2008) is a Hindi drama film by Santosh Sivan about a young Kashmiri boy who embarks on a journey to recover his beloved donkey after it’s taken away to settle a family debt.
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by Art House Cinema Desk | Jun 8, 2026 | Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Malayalam
Elippathayam, directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan, is a 1981 film, that chronicles, with extraordinary restraint and formal control, the extinction of an entire social order through the fate of one thoroughly unremarkable man.
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by Art House Cinema Desk | Jun 8, 2026 | Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Malayalam
Anantaram, directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan, is a 1987 psychological drama that is considered one of Indian cinema’s most sophisticated meditations on the relationship between storytelling, memory, and psychological disintegration
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by Art House Cinema Desk | Jun 7, 2026 | Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Avant-Garde, Malayalam
Kodiyettam, released in 1977 and directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan, stands as one of the defining works of the Malayalam New Wave cinema.
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