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Ketan Mehta’s Rang Rasiya, which is soon to hit the theatres is said to be one of the most ambitious project the filmmaker has ever made. While he has made sure he ensure the best of everything for the project, the filmmaker recently confirmed the film had not one but two DOPs (Director of Photography) in the film. When asked what about the film based on Ranjit Desai’s book, Raja Ravi Varma, featuring Randeep Hooda and Nandana Sen needed two Dops, Mehta said that they didn’t want to compromise on the cinematography of the film. Given it is a film based on the artistic, Raja Ravi Varma, a celebrated painter and his muse, the director was positive he wanted no one other than Rali Raltchev for the film.

“Ravi Varma is such a part of our consciousness that I wanted a fresh pair of eyes to see,...

★★★★☆ Winner of the Best Debut Feature award at this year's Raindance Film Festival, Viktor Chouchkov's Tilt (2011) may well be flawed and occasionally cringe-worthy, but it's also fantastically fun and formally assured. Set in the late 1980s as Bulgaria's political landscape was in a state of flux, the film details the tumultuous relationship between young lovers Stash (Yavor Baharov) and Becky (Radina Kardjilova) as they experience the hardships existing on both sides of the 1990 free election that dissects the film.

Threatened by Becky's crooked cop father, Stash and his pornography-pedalling friends emigrate to Germany, the fall of the Berlin wall promising a better life for the teenagers. Finding themselves digging graves and robbing pawn shops to keep afloat, the boys decide to venture back to their hometown to reunite the young couple.

From the first scene - set in the boys' wonderfully designed porn cellar - Tilt establishes a momentum that never subsides,...