July 8, 2025
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Watch: How Autobiographical Blind Spots Ruin Stories | Case Study: Sanju

Watch: How Autobiographical Blind Spots Ruin Stories | Case Study: Sanju When filmmakers get too close to their subject, they often lose the one thing that makes a story resonate: honesty. In this episode of Frequently Made Mistakes, Sudhish Kamath breaks down the dangers of autobiographical blind spots—the storytelling flaw that turns biopics into PR. […]

Watch: Why Indie films feel stuck: Case study – The Disciple

Frequently Made Mistakes Episode 3 Frequently Made Mistakes Episode 3 – The Disciple | Video Credit: The Hindu Why do some indie and arthouse films feel like they’re going in circles? In this episode of Frequently Made Mistakes, filmmaker, screenwriter and film critic Sudhish Kamath unpacks one of the most common storytelling traps in modern cinema: […]

The Verisimilitude Problem in ‘Jigra’

Ever watched a film and thought, “Wait — why would anyone do that?” That’s not a logic flaw — it’s a verisimilitude problem. You stop believing in the world on screen, and once that trust is broken, the film falters. Jigra, our case study for this fortnight, opens with a quiet family moment: a father […]