Author: Lasya Aggarwal

Transitioning from a background in in-house IT and mobile music distribution to full-time writing, Lasya Aggarwal brings a unique industry perspective to the entertainment beat. A lifelong film enthusiast who discusses cinema daily across global digital platforms, she covers the latest in movies, television, and pop culture.

There is no more arduous task for a filmmaker than to put fantasy on the screen. With tales of gods and mythological beasts there is an ever present danger of them coming across as contrived, all the more so in a time when directors can simply turn to computer graphics as the go-to fix for any difficulty. Christopher Nolan has chosen to do things his own way with The Odyssey. Where others might have ceded to the digital, he has made an epic poem replete with the supernatural into something you can almost touch; the mythical becomes entirely believable. Monumental…

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