Diorama, New Delhi, January 2019: Films screened and their ratings

In cold New Delhi, the iconic Siri Fort was the venue for the first ever Diorama International Film Festival. What was once a single screen venue has burgeoned into a four screen complex, with the largest of them, Auditorium 1, able to accommodate approximately 2,000 persons.  Audi 1 was sparingly used, and rightly so, because audiences were thin, to say the least. Of the other three, Auditorium 4 was largely used as the Film Market, while most screenings happened in Audi 2 and Audi 3.

I reached on the second day, and could watch films only from the evening of the 15^th. Moreover, I had to leave on the morning of the closing day, the 20^th, so I must have missed some more films. Nevertheless, here is the list of films I could catch, with my ratings.

SANJU

Director: Raju Hirani

155Mins/Hindi/India/2018: ***

URO JAHAJ

Director: Buddhadeb Dasgupta

82Mins/Bengali/India/2018: ***

TONY

Director: Vipul Rawal

113Mins/Hindi/India/2018: ** ½

DEAR MOLLY

Director: Gajendra Ahire

91 Mins/Marathi, English/India/2018: ** ½

ANDHADHUN

Director: Sriram Raghavan

139Mins/Hindi/India/2018: ***

#NUDES

Director: Guily Machovec

104Mins/Portuguese/Brazil/2018: ***

BLESSED IS THE FRUIT

Director: André Morais

97Mins/Portuguese/Brazil/2018: ** ½

MANOHAR & I

Director: Amitabha Chatterjee

118Mins/Bengali/India/2018: *** ½

BOYZHETKEN. SHE IS ALL THAT

Director: Abdel Fiftybayev

93Mins/Russian/Kazakhstan/2018: ** ½

BHAYANAKAM

Director: Jayaraj

124Mins/Hindi,Urdu/India/2018: *** ½

THE PLAYBOY MR. SAWHNEY

Director: Tariq Naved Siddiqui

26Mins/Hindi/India/2018: ** ½

THE WAR WITHIN

Director: Amarpreet GS Chhabra

24Mins/Hindi/India/2018: ** ½

PLEASE MIND THE GAP

Director: Mitali Trivedi, Gagandeep Singh

20Mins/Hindi/India/2018: **