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Day 62


Day 62 (31st October)

Three fine films at MAMI today. Champions, the Spanish film turned the convention of sporting movies on its head. The underdog team doesn’t win and finishes second. Yet they celebrate unabashedly and teach the coach a valuable lesson. The team is made of people with impaired intellectual abilities. They are champions despite being runners-up. The Indian film, Hamid, is a near flawless story on the Kashmir problem as seen through the eyes of a 7-year old boy. One Cut of the Dead, the Japanese film was a very clever film on film-making. It turned horror into a comedy.

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