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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I have no food for thought today. I have a blank canvas to paint. All I have is a feeling, to pour my thoughts and color the canvas in such a way, that it makes someone smile. I looked at an old picture today and laughed at how funny I look. But there is this […]
He enters my room, looks at my gloomy face and being the best friend that he is, says, “Sugar, wanna go for a walk?” I nod. We walk and walk, without uttering a single word. Reaching Marine Drive, we both sit down at our usual place. Everything still unsaid. Sitting next to him, gazing at the […]
It’s weird that people push you to your limits and expect you to break all the walls and be there for them. Without any expectation. For LOVE, you do just that. Be there for them, get back with them every time they demand, give more and more of love, hoping to have some of it […]