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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Jaspal Bhatti was more of a crusader than a comedian, who through his simple, clean, genial and understated humour won millions of hearts through decades. With much ease, freshness and simplicity, Bhatti’s realistic characters, caught in everyday situations, were identifiable and made instant connect. Utilizing comedy as a tool of satire had been his […]
On October 10, 1964, the whole nation was shocked to hear about the sudden and tragic death of the great stalwart of Hindi cinema Guru Dutt. Not only because he was a great film director, producer and actor; but because he was only 39 years old. His fame was defined by four films Pyaasa, Kaagaz Ke […]
As we are entering into the 65th year of Independence, a zeal, a fervor can be felt all around; and moreover, as we celebrate the glorious achievements of our six Olympians, who have made the whole nation proud with their feats, here are six cases which put every Indian, worth his salt, hang his head […]
Here it comes again – another gory incident; a barbaric, heinous, inhuman and despicable act that has put the whole nation to shame. A young girl was molested by 20 men, in the open, in front of the eyes of many more standing there, or passing by. And we say we are living in the […]
‘I’ …..They say, Never stoops down to ‘i’, But no one can tell you How come, and why The stiff-necked ostrich, The self-styled king Forever looks down upon, Each of its fellow-being Saddam, Hitler, Mussolini, Leaders of the creed, They all swear allegiance To a tribe, this ‘I’ does breed. I wonder who the scholar, […]
Now this is how a Punjabi describes a non-Punjabi wedding, ‘Hmm…It was quite simple… They had only upma for breakfast…’ and so on. You cannot miss the disappointing tone – a typical Punjabi, expecting a totally different scenario at a wedding. Even my spontaneous response was that of surprise, “Oh, really?” But later on I […]