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 last India Art Summit held in Delhi this January, Bharti Kher’s untitled triptych made out of her trademark stick-on bindis reportedly fetched Rs 1.9 crore, slightly higher than husband Subodh Gupta’s acrylic on canvas that went for Rs 1.2 crore. Somnath Hore’s Congregation in a Village sold for Rs 75 lakh, a Ravinder Reddy […]
Never meet Gulzar during lunch time, especially when it hasn’t been served yet. When he is hungry, he gets into a foul mood, refuses to answer in more than monosyllables and makes mocking comments like “I am busy arranging marriages” when asked what keeps him occupied these days. What we have said to upset him […]
“The world speaks to me in colours, my soul answers in music.” This is a famous quote by one of India’s cult figures Rabindranath Tagore who, even seven decades after his death, remains the pride of not just Bengalis but Indians all over. Tagore songs – famously known as Rabindra Sangeet – are still popular […]
When you are given a ‘post-lunch’ appointment with the grand old man of Indian art, Syed Haider Raza – whose homecoming this January after having lived and worked in Paris for over six decades as been as much in news as the record breaking acrylic on canvas Saurashtra that went for a whopping Rs 16.4 […]
Unboxed Writers introduces Art Beat, a fortnightly column that takes you to people, places and trends in art, tracks prices that rise and fall, artists who have made it and also the ones to watch out for, events that become the talk of the town and those which don’t live up to the hype. Have […]
“There are different forms of war everywhere… War zones of a different sort where we are often the banal and apathetic audience.”
It is almost dusk and the sun looks like a luminous paper lantern hanging in a distant balcony. The sky’s canvas is slowly getting transformed into an abstract medley of red and orange strokes. On the earth below, in a corner of Nehru Park where Bhakti Utsav took off last evening, a different magic is happening. The Manganiar singers – […]
Watching a rehearsal of Prayog 3 at Delhi’s Kamani Auditorium is like witnessing an enchanting duet between tradition and modernity. This particular act is titled Kaali and the eight dancers are enacting the movements of the ferocious killer goddess, Bhadrakali, as popularly known in the South. The haunting background music adds to the dark mood. Death […]
We live in troubled times. We gasp in horror at the scams and scoundrels who surface every now and then, begin to voice our hopes when people like Anna Hazare talk of reform and wait for another round of media blitzkrieg to unite us emotionally – even if it is the next Indo-Pak cricket face […]
There was a time when a trip to the bourgeois Hauz Khas Village was a must-do on every high-heeled art lover’s weekend itinerary. In the last one year, however, the sleepy South Delhi neighbourhood of Lado Sarai has emerged as the new art destination with as many as five new art galleries having opened their […]
It’s a close up of a man’s face – the eyes are closed, a slight smile hovers around the lips and the stark-white background brings into sharp focus every detail of a shaven head. The work is self-referential and focuses on the conceptual presentation of self portraiture. To most of us, this may seem like […]
Is that a horse blowing its own trumpet or is it a donkey carrying the load of an entire household on its feeble shoulders? Why is a globe hanging upside down tied up with slippers, books, petrol cans, water bottles and a mattress too? The rabbit certainly doesn’t seem so ‘hare-brained’ compared to the ‘empty-headed’ […]