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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Whatever they told you about love and romance is getting a complete make-over in today’s age of plug-ins and widgets. Love in the air has been replaced by love in the digital maze of dating apps that claim to help you find your ideal soul mate! Forget the fabled heart-in-the-mouth or butterflies-in-the-belly moments; it is […]
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 […]
Piya Behrupiya, the Hindi musical version of Twelfth Night brought by The Company Theatre will open in Pune on the 13th of October, this year. This play was staged recently at the World Shakespeare Festival in London-UK and was applauded by a full house. In the words of its director, Atul Kumar, the audiences in […]
Though it was a night of glitz, glamor, and chutzpah crowded by the who’s who of filmdom, the underdogs clambered up the throne of entertainment at the recently concluded Filmfare Awards. And the biggies humbly accepted their defeat and made way for the path-breakers. Vidya Balan, who played a sex-bomb in a no-holds-barred performance in the Dirty […]
They say that the streets in every Asian city have the same things to offer. You would always find China towns selling fake Rolex watches or corners where shiny knick-knacks are spread out neatly to demand a second gaze. However, walking down the streets of Bangkok is a different experience altogether. Amidst the jamboree of […]
I remember coming across a billboard during one of my road trips which had “Sex,” in big bold letters, written all over it. However, the sentence that followed read, “Now, that we have your attention, let us remind you about the polio drive!” Clearly, the advertiser knew that the S word would guarantee a lot […]
There are beaches known for their revelry and then, there are the tranquil ones that mesmerize your senses. Murud-Harnai beach belongs to the latter category. Tucked away snugly in the rugged coastline of Konkan, it is known for its shimmering sands, clear blue waters, and palm-fringed landscapes. The journey to Murud-Harnai is a tad difficult […]
Don’t allow your first impression of Luxembourg (a European country and city of the same name) to be the last one! For, this is a place that sneaks up on you. My first tryst with the country started with a schlep down the Luxembourg airport – one of the tiniest in the whole of Europe. […]
With tender fondness, I reminisce about the good old DD (yes, our own Doordarshan) days that formed an intrinsic part of my childhood. As I stroll down the memory lane, an era flashes by, of the 80s, untouched by the concept of channel flicking or the sway of TRPs. This was the time when television […]