In 1979, Basu Chatterjee made Baaton Baaton Mein and unobtrusively brought to us the dating and courtship rituals of a community that was till then either caricatured or just overlooked in Hindi cinema. Nancy Perreira and Tony Braganza…
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Matriarchal manipulation in a patriarchal world is depicted unsparingly in Usha Priyamwada’s Pachpan Khambe Laal Deewarein (Now playing on Prasar Bharti). The mother resentful of her lecturer daughter’s comfortable life in her college residence because the younger daughters…
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“Start with hope..always start with hope. We went from being a shitty team to become one of the biggest dynasties in the sport and all it needed was one match to light this fire,” says Michael Jordan at…
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In 1947, my grandparents brought three children and the remains of an uprooted life from Pakistan to India in a train. One of those children was my mother. I grew up hearing a lot of stories about the…
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Three documentaries streaming right now show the ultimate culmination of the Bois Locker Room culture. And what happens when one gender is taught to mistrust its instincts of self-preservation and the other does not even learn something as…
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In Sudip Sharma’s Paatal Lok (Now streaming on Amazon. Co written by Sharma, Sagar Haveli, Hardik Mehta and Gunjit Chopra. Directed by Avinash Arun and Prosit Roy), India’s disowned inhabit the headlines we turn away from. A young…
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I enjoyed imagining that director Raaghav Dar, maybe unconsciously, maybe while casting or perhaps even while writing, had seen Prateik as I do, and then put him in My Friend Pinto and asked me, “Is this how you see him?” Like the painting the don has made for Reshma, the film is not great art, […]
Like initial euphorias, there are initial griefs and then a deeper sadness.. Yes, am sad – 56 is too early.. But then I wonder, how much more this genius could have been. From that ‘Open Schematics’ company to a centrally controlled, controlling, censoring conglomerate.. From the garage to subcontracting to Foxconn with its 34 hour shifts […]
One review called it a ‘preposterous-bad-action movie’ climax and the local RJ on a FM channel found it comic. For a reviewer on a TV channel, this was one scene indicating that the script was ‘begging for a rewrite.’ “Too bizarre, unnecessary and bordering on the ludicrous,” another review said. Yet another makes a direct […]
One midnight in the Konkan, I found myself precariously near the edge of a straight, steep drop down a valley. Timely brakes, controlled clutch and a broken wall. Not entirely broken. A storm raining over it, and so many crumbling rocks and yet it was not yet a non-wall. But I was too close to […]
It is really upsetting to hear Kiran Bedi’s language and public statements like, “When the resolution is passed, the parliament will become a Pavitra Mandir.” The parliament is NOT a mandir, Madam, it is an institution. A democratic institution which has rules that must be obeyed. To say “jab tak resolution pass nahi hota , […]
I sincerely hope that the 74-year-old leader will now end his fast. Kiran Bedi proclaimed recently that Anna Hazare will continue the fast until the Jan Lokpal Bill is passed. Why doesn’t Madam go on a fast herself? Jokes apart, Anna Hazare should be a responsible leader now. He has established himself as leader of so […]
Am looking forward to the new film written by Anjum Rajabali. All for selfish reasons of course. First, the personal reason-The joy of peeping into the minds of the characters. Finding layers. Ah! A complex here, a fear there. Delightful when the screenplay writer is a qualified psychologist, isn’t it? Then, because I teach and […]
Lahu Sambhaji Khade died on July 8, 2011 at Kavlapur village, District Sangli. He was 78 years old. Nobody knew Lahu Khade. However,thousands of his fans in villages across Maharashtra knew and loved Kaalu. Lahu Khade was the Kaalu of the Kaalu-Baalu Tamasha that he established along with his brother Ankush Khade. Ankush was […]
Editor’s note: This piece was written by the author as a Facebook note in response to the manner in which young celebrities are speaking out to defend the freedom to drink. Actor Imran Khan, it was reported, intends to file a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) against the Maharashtra government’s decision to raise the legal age limit for alcohol consumption to 25 years. I was touched to see […]