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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During the 53rd edition of the Bengaluru Ganesh Utsava, veteran singer Vani Jairam was in Bengaluru to share the stage with fellow singers P Susheela and Vijay Prakash. When we caught up with the legend hours before her performance, she was struggling to find some quiet amid the din of rehearsals. Finding quietude has not been difficult […]
Dr Mili Chakraborty likes to pose for selfies… perhaps that is why every frame she is in seems to be carefully composed for a snapshot. Her smile is always selfie ready and even though she says, “jo dil mein hai..wohi zabaan par,” nothing she says really come across as spontaneous. Not even her Skype conversations […]
There is no particular reason to remember Hrishikesh Mukherjee today but in the context of nostalgia, of remembering how we were, how simple our cinema was, how moving, how heart-felt, how innocent, his is the first name that one remembers. The best tribute to Hrishikesh Mukherjee would be to smile in gentle recollection. His cinema was […]
On the eve of the release of Zoya Akhtar’s second film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, I went back to her debut and the clear-sightedness with which she revealed to us, the industry she works and lives in. It was with much relish that she added, little asides to the bonfire of celluloid vanities in Luck By Chance. The self-absorption of star makers. […]