Motwane’s seven for MUBI

The writer-director-producer curates a ‘must-watch’ list of films for the streaming platform

Though he can’t remember who recommended The Usual Suspects almost three decades ago, for Vikramaditya Motwane, the passion behind the “you must watch it!” made him watch the film. He invested as much emotion when he picked seven films for and from MUBI: Raj Kapoor’s Awaara, Christian Petzold’s Transit, Sameh Zoabi’s Tel Aviv On Fire, Satyajit Ray’s Mahapurush, Jay and Mark Duplass’s Baghead, and Archana Phadke’s About Love.

Given the size of the MUBI library, Motwane had his work cut out. Through multiple revisions, he consciously picked the “non-obvious”, leaving out films like Fight Club and Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colours trilogy that most cinema fans would have already seen. The selection reflects Motwane’s appreciation for the film streaming platform’s library, which has “movies that go back in time and also from around the world; that’s what is amazing for me: multiple languages, multiple genres”.