“All We Imagine as Light” is an emotional, touching portrait of female anguish and solidarity set in Mumbai—and, if there’s justice, will travel all the way to the Oscars.

All We Imagine as Light does this too with its own unique look of playing with the 1.66:1 ratio that films like A Clockwork Orange, Jackie or New York, New York used.

Early in All We Imagine as Light, Anu (Divya Prabha) asks her boyfriend Shiaz (Hridhu Haroon) to send her kisses through the clouds so that when it rains, they reach her lips. The frequent ...

Kani Kusruti as Prabha and Divya Prabha as Anu in "All We Imagine As Light." Tracing the interweaving lives of three women working together in a multi-speciality hospital in Mumbai, the film ...

Midway through “All We Imagine as Light,” after the doctor has made some sweets for Prabha and after Anu has tried out a disguise to slip into her lover’s neighborhood, Parvaty arrives at a ...

I found that film utterly hypnotic, the peak screen experience of 2021. “All We Imagine as Light” operates far less experimentally and more as traditionally shaped story, but it too casts a spell.

She directed the Indian film "All We Imagine As Light." Now, if you think Indian cinema, you probably think Bollywood, with its bright colors and lively dance performances. Well, this isn't that.

Anu, Shiaz and Prabha will eventually return to Mumbai, resuming their chaotic lives. In the last scene of the film, we are left to linger in a moment of calm, yet it is not permanent, emphasizing the ...

As “All We Imagine as Light” moves along, it slowly accumulates the magic of fable. Prabha (Kani Kusruti) hasn’t heard from her husband, who’s working in Germany, in years.

However, “All We Imagine As Light” takes a revolutionary perspective on the city of dreams, transforming Bombay’s high grandeur into a location for the struggling everyman — or, in Kapadia’s case, the ...

“All We Imagine as Light” opens in India in November, at the same time as the U.S. Next up: Kapadia is writing another film, which is also based in Mumbai.

By the end of All We Imagine as Light, these women are able to see from one another's perspective in a way that broadens their appreciation for each other as women, and in turn, our understanding ...