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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An ideal society should be class-less and caste-less, that is understandable, but is it right or even possible to build a society that has no family structure at all? What would be desirable – abolishing the family unit or a fundamental change in it? Social structures based on Caste or Class are either a religious […]
Acting is flirting with schizophrenia – someone said that, I don’t know who, but I believe in that just the way I believe in God. And I believe in God completely; after all God is the ultimate Creator and I believe that as an actor/writer, I am creative! How do I give birth to the […]
What a nice day, no, it’s a super one! Can’t believe my luck, what’s going on? I feel so happy, can’t stop smiling! I feel so good, it’s simply nauseating. I am not hurting, I have no need, Of a shoulder to cry on, ears to pay heed. I pick up the pieces, find another, […]
Piece together the pieces of a scattered mind Make a scented paste of the bump and grind A play, a performance, a story played out An emotion whispered with a gentle pout. The sweat must not smell and the hurt must not show But Feelings must reach all the way back to the last row […]