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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** And this is how seemingly impossible stories are born. An American book about children in India, on a tour across the country results in a chance meeting between two disparate worlds in a small village and what emerged from it is..this. ** “I met little Deepa one evening at the village along with other […]
Religion is a just a life jacket But in a storm you need more ** Not all storms come to destroy Not all islands offer refuge ** God is not a ritual Evil is not outside The terrors we see around us often begin within ** Even when we are adrift we are getting somewhere […]
Like Zoya Akhtar’s Luck By Chance, the evocative opening sequence of Reema Kagti Talaash tells (co-written by Zoya Akhtar) a story in a tightly spun, unforgettable montage. Here the story is of the dispossessed and the marginalised. Invisible to a rushing, glittering- on- the- surface megapolis. The old woman with nowhere to go. The drug addict and the dog. […]
On a day when the sky was an occasional dusty pink. melted gold and powder puff blue.. the traffic went on oblivious to everything except what was blocking the way and cluttering the day And then a gush of wind brushed past a tree and tickled it into a sudden.. pink laughter And a […]
After performing Piya Behrupiya to a fabulous response from press and public at the recently concluded Rangashankara Festival, The Company Theatre is back with “NOTHING LIKE LEAR”. This is a devised theatre performance based on Shakespeare’s King Lear, is directed by Rajat Kapoor and performed alternately by Atul Kumar and Vinay Pathak. For any information..contact […]
And so the 20-something terrorist was hanged to death this week and the question remains. Does capital punishment resolve, solve anything? Does it bring real closure? And who are we to judge whether a criminal, no matter how hardened and beyond redemption deserves to live or die? Who are we also to judge people […]
Every film loving generation in India has had a definitive Hindi film heroine. Suraiya was possibly India’s first female superstar and was a perfect fit for the cinema of 40s and the 50s that was rich with Urdu poetry and elemental stories of passion and sacrifice. She was the reigning queen of the developing Talkie […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]