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Niikhiil Akhiil
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Film Critic and Writer, High on Films
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Biography
A film critic and film reviewer who believes that emotions are the capillaries of a film, where one connects with the soul of the narration more than the written subtitles.
Genre films, Award films
Content
By Niikhiil Akhiil Verified| film-fest-report.com@ So, how does a butterfly survive? asks director Dương Diệu Linh while hiding a butterfly at the back of the curtain. There isn’t a fixed answer to this peculiar question, yet Dương Diệu Linh reframes the concept of survival by focusing on its fundamental elements—where it cocoons the deviation of its patience, the manifestation of thoughts amidst all the mysteries. The question now is, does it actually work? The butterfly eavesdrops, and progressively, grins.
By Niikhiil Akhiil Verified| High on Films Verified We have all been here at this phase – a phase where every decision is marked as incorrect. It’s also a period that teaches us to find our own pathways when things go sideways. A friend and a foe, the coming-of-age period pushes us to leave our comfort zone to face the real world. In Thisen Umagiliya’s latest short film, Distance (2023), the coming-of-age period is seen through Tharini with a quest for a revolution.
By Niikhiil Akhiil Verified| High on Films Verified In A Match (2023, Original title: Sthal), Savita opens her eyes immediately upon hearing her mom’s wake-up call. She glances at the walls of her room and stares. Her unceasing stare immobilizes her in and out, almost turning her into a figurine in that second. What’s certain is that an enormous amount of strength is pumped and loaded within her soul while she hibernates silently. The beauty of Jayant Digambar Somalkar’s debut Marathi indie film, Sthal (2023), is just priceless.
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High on Films
The relation between human and movie has always been inexplicably seductive. Cinema is the flickering light of entertainment that pierce through gloomy banality of life, an ounce of hope that pacifies the pain, a dropper full of dream that transcends deadening dimension of reality. Cinema has the power to make you high, but in the most positive and powerful way. In a way, where you get high but enlightened. Here is introducing our website, High On Films [HOF, as we are often mentioned]. We write reviews, movie articles, movie lists, character/film analogies and anything remotely associated with movies. We have nothing against studio cinema, but we like to call ourselves a glorious mecca for those making films outside the studios, craving for attention, the little gems that need recognition, we are flag bearer of those indie cinema from across the globe. High on Films is going to take care of your cinematic ecstasy.
India, Malaysia, Singapore, Malaysia
Founded: 2015