Ramayana creates HISTORY at San Diego Comic-Con: 'International superstars' Ranbir Kapoor and Yash to unveil trailer with live performances and exclusive surprises in MASSIVE 4,800-seater Ballroom 20

A few days remain before the release of the Ramayana trailer, and excitement is tremendous. Yesterday, we reported that a 4-minute-15-second-long trailer of Ramayana was cleared by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) on July 15 with a 'U' certificate. Now, we bring to you some exciting details of the trailer launch event that would take place at San Diego Comic-Con. San Diego Comic-Con is the world’s largest annual pop culture and comic book convention. On July 23, the trailer of Ramayana will be screened at the prestigious event in the presence of the film’s team. The panel will be held from 3:15 pm to 4:15 pm PDT (Pacific Daylight Time), which translates to 3:45 am to 4:45 am IST (Indian Standard Time) on Friday, July 24. According to the official website of San Diego Comic-Con, producer Namit Malhotra and director Nitesh Tiwari will be joined by 'international superstars Ranbir Kapoor (Rama) and Yash (Ravana)'. The website further states that 'The pan...

Unclenching the Fists review – claustrophobic drama full of trauma and tenderness

A quietly phenomenal performance by Milana Aguzarova as a young woman trying to break free from the unsettling relationships within her stifling family

Like her partner Kantemir Balagov’s 2019 film Beanpole, there’s an uncanny claustrophobic charge to Kira Kovalenko’s family drama, though it finally exhales an equally powerful sigh of self-redemption. Milana Aguzarova stars as Ada, a young woman in a North Ossetian mining town trapped by her ailing and possessive father Zaur (Alik Karaev). He guards the only front door key, letting her and her siblings out when he chooses, and refuses to let her have an operation to correct injuries sustained during a school hostage-taking that mean she has to wear an incontinence nappy.

Ada’s brother Akim (Soslan Khugaev) comes home from the city of Rostov and seems to have the self-possession and moral compass Zaur does not. He promises to get her the treatment she needs – and a shot at romance with local chancer Tamik (Arsen Khetagurov), who has been hovering. But there’s an unsettling ambivalence to his help, expressed in their fraught confrontations and intense embraces; an incestuous undertone that younger brother Dakko (Khetag Bibilov), who tries to climb into Ada’s bed like a small child, is also subject to.

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