Phullu, Review by Siraj Syed: Misleading title, taboo subject, tenacious treatment This is a good example of a film named after its lead character, with no regard for audiences’ perception of what it might stand for, and no clue about the storyline. The word is not a corruption of phool (flower), though it could well be an attempt to synthesise phool with ullu (owl; figuratively, a fool). We can go with the assumption that they intended to call him the flower fool, Phullu. Phullu is ab...

The Unmentionables Film Festival is an annual theme-based program that investigates a different “taboo” topic each year.   The inaugural edition, "Vol. I: Menstruation," will be presented in partnership with Maysles Cinema, an independent film house in Manhattan, and will celebrate all things menstrual.   Through the lens of filmmakers from around the globe, the festival will shift the conversation around the much-maligned and rarely...