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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A knock at the door and they both were shaken to death; a chill ran through their spines. They dreaded any knock at their door. But they knew it would come – a knock at the door – and with it the final word. And today it came….. A shriek, loud, yet restricted and subdued, […]
Serendipity often irrevocably alters preordained lives. Mona Ambegaonkar, of the fiercely intelligent eyes and a face like a living memory, for instance was going to study science and could not have imagined that one day she would become chief assistant director of Shekhar Kapoor’s Mr India. Or a model, writer, producer and director of documentaries, an actor working with renowned […]
Khoj, a Delhi-based multi-disciplinary cultural NGO, is celebrating its 10 years in Khirkee Extension, and doing it in style. No, there is no fancy cocktail opening here; it’s the residents of Khirkee who will get a chance to double up as artists, musicians, actors and cooks in the three-day festival titled Khoj Dus Tak […]
To Act Is To Do is a theatre and performance workshop that renowned actor (across the platforms of cinema, TV , theatre and beyond) Mona Ambegaonkar brings to Bangalore on November 23 and 24 at Atta Galatta. She says, “I use theatre training techniques mainly to help actors realize when and how and why they hit their individual […]
Studio ABD, founded by designer Abhijit Bansod, one of the leading creative voices in the Indian design context is built around the credo, “Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.” For Abhijit and wife and co-designer Amrita Kaushal-Bansod, products are not just consumables but animated anecdotes, living stories that connect […]
A pixie with large talking eyes and busy hands weaving butterfly dreams. That is Sreeti Mondol for you. Someone who is definitely, decidedly a gloriously luminescent butterfly, out of her cocoon that many of us spend a lifetime hibernating in. Sreeti is a fount of colour and energy, smiles and chatter and then there are the beads. […]
On 13 November 2012, Omnishambles was named Word of the Year by the Oxford English Dictionary. Omnishambles is a neologism i.e. a newly coined word which is in the process of gaining sociopolitical acceptance; and it can be defined as an all-prevailing disorder or chaos; or a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized […]
There was a bit of Yash Chopra in every one of his heroes. Like some of them he believed in an ever-after. In the integrity of emotion. Whether that emotion was hate etched like a tattoo on a wrist or anger over the betrayal of a father. Or lost love that a poet mourned […]
Ingredients: 1 cup rice 1/2 cup each of toor dal, masoor dal, moong dal and chana dal 1 cup curd 1 cup cut spinach handful of methi (fenugreek) leaves 1 carrot shredded 1/2 cup green peas 1/2 cup bottlegourd shredded 2 green chillies 3 tsp lemon juice 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste 1/2 tsp […]
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 […]
I’ve been losing my footing. It’s like someone or something has loosened up the hardened clay around my root system. Like some unseen force of nature is trying to uproot me. Take me out of my comfort zone and catapult me into the unknown. And I most definitely don’t like it. I haven’t […]
UNSELFED After an impressive opening run in Pondicherry at Adishaki and in Chennai at Spaces and the Alliance Francaise, Unselfed travels to Bangalore. Unselfed is a new devised performance piece which explores subjective ideas and propositions of parallel/multiple selves. What if you met another you – a living, breathing other you? Would you have a conversation with […]