Parinda
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
Heavy, kinetic, extreme crime / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Brothers Kishan and Karan grow up in Bombay. Karan soon leaves to study in America while Kishan enters into a life of crime, falling under the sway of Anna Seth, a drug lord. When Karan returns to Bombay, Kishan intends to keep him as far away from his criminal life as possible, but things don't go as planned.
Our read · Parinda (1989) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded crime · drama · gangster entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Parinda
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The reading.
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