Film

Saahith Mothkuri’s Kichidi finally has a trailer, and it’s worth the wait. The Artical trailer drops a mood before it drops a plot. You get flashes of humour, a romance that doesn’t explain itself, and enough suspense to make you wonder what happens after the screen cuts to black. That’s how a trailer should work – it sells the feeling, not the summary. Mothkuri has been building a reputation for stories that sit somewhere between the familiar and the unexpected. Kichidi keeps that thread but pushes it further. The characters in these first glimpses feel like people you’d actually recognise, not the polished archetypes that fill most of the screen time these days. And the camera work has a quiet confidence to it – it trusts you to pick up on the atmosphere without spelling everything out. ...