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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One of the perks of aging was that I could give up my looks as a lost cause and save a lot of time and money that would be spent primping in front of the mirror. The hair-style, style of clothes and so forth, that suit me are now practically set in stone and […]
Most people need a movie review like they need a nail trim at a salon. It’s an option and sure we love one but we can live without it. Ofcourse, you’d like an indication of some sort on what to expect of a movie. That’s fair. But don’t we have that well before it’s time for a review […]
Music is a popular topic of debate in drawing room conversations, considering how conspicuously present it is at most get-togethers where music trivia begins to come out of your ears, after a while. Often, my heart goes out to the unsuspecting souls who have somehow managed to hold on to their romanticism about their kind of “good music,” only to innocently offer it to pontificating snobs for demolition on evenings like […]
#1 – A sink full of vessels will not wash itself… even if u wait for two days! And even if you pray for it to grow a pair of hands! * #2 – Making chapatis is a lesson in Acceptance (of whatever shape emerges)… Letting go (of over-emphasis on perfection).. and Gratitude (for what […]
There will come a time in your life when you might be introduced to the novel idea that it is not just products that reach expiry dates, but people too! I am reaching the 25 year mark very soon and needless to say that leaves some very worried parents wondering if their beautiful daughter will […]
It’s that time of the year once again when we catch up with television celebs who brought into our bedrooms the most unbearable rubbish. Guys and gals, you nearly killed us when we went banging our heads against our television screens. For that you get some new year resolution suggestions that might make us like […]
** 2002. Second year of the dreaded chase called Engineering. I was sitting in a smoky, ghostly room with fellow Mech-ies enjoying a rather strong brew. Tranced into the ocean of Bengali Renaissance songs, we hovered in a make-believe happy little world. All sorts of topics, ranging from girls to the ever increasing price of liquor […]
December 1995, 1300 hours, Somewhere in the Western Sector It’s embarrassing as hell. Captain Manoj Rawat (my newly married husband) and I (his newly wedded wife) are standing (actually, wobbling) on a moving camel cart with big yellow marigold garlands dangling around our necks. The regiment adjutant – a short, slim man – and […]
“Kuch jamaa nahi!” (Translated in English, the phrase loosely refers to something that was supposed to set but did not. Like an idea that did not firm up. Or curd, that stayed runny.) Ask any advertising professional worth his salt, the true meaning of the client reaction stated above and chances are, he/she would be short […]
Based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Piya Behrupiya is a Hindi musical drama by The Company Theatre and directed by theatre doyen Atul Kumar. It played to a packed house at London’s Globe theatre and was recently staged at Pune’s Nehru Hall. The play unfurls with a huge portrait of Shakespeare to whom the arriving stage actors pay […]
27 Likes and 10 Comments …not good enough! Logged in again after an hour- 60 Likes and 20 Comments….now it seems impressive! My new yellow shoes seem to have finally made an impression- it was worth the price. What next? I visit my Wall. Sweety has adopted a new pug whose name is Tashi, […]
Dear God, Thank you! Thanks for this wonderful human life that you have bestowed upon me. I cannot imagine being a plant, an animal, a bird or something as gross as a centipede (due respect to your creative skills). ** Thank you for having made me a woman. It is far better than being […]