enthu’s season about films and food, Film Vilm Food Shood, launches on the same weekend as Animal and Sam Bahadur do. It also arrives on the heels of dozens of new restaurant openings across the country.
The end of the year is a very good season for film critics and food writers alike – everything is buzzing, we’re all in the mood to try something new, and we then are primed to hotly debate all of it with all the friends we’re hanging out with.
Movies and meals – both make us feel. So much.
While eating food on the street or on a white tablecloth, while watching scenes unfold in a feature film or on a recipe short, or while watching a documentary – we experience joy and disgust, pleasure and pain, delight and fury, the frenzy of excitement and the sentimentality of nostalgia.
Our choices in film, and our choices in food, tell us who we are.
It’s exactly this idea that our first season in enthu’s second year gets into. Who are we except that which we consume?
There are stories in this season exploring very out-there OTT content. We have stories that talk about the grandeur, the desperation, and the humour of cinema. And there are also stories that make us want to Netflix and NOT chill after we have watched them.
There is a screenplay that comes from khau gallis, and there is an essay about how art imitates desi life in the many ways that we may even refuse to admit to ourselves.
There is a story about a legendary cinema house that turned the idea of hospitality and deliciousness on its head, through sheer doggedness.
There is an essay by a celebrated filmmaker about how on-set snacks inform the memories of production.
There are many intersections between food and film that we could continue to explore, and we do and we will.
For now, I could not be prouder or happier about the stories we have for enthu’s latest season.
Our choices in food and film will always tell us who we are.
Go along now, read all of these stories and more, at enthucutlet.com