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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“Kuch jamaa nahi!” (Translated in English, the phrase loosely refers to something that was supposed to set but did not. Like an idea that did not firm up. Or curd, that stayed runny.) Ask any advertising professional worth his salt, the true meaning of the client reaction stated above and chances are, he/she would be short […]
She came. She sat. She watched. She was in a hospital again. Surrounded by stark walls, the overpowering antiseptic smell assaulting her, the starched white nurses, ward boys bustling about, the doctors moving about doing their daily bit, relatives looking sad and weary and patients waiting their turn to be back on their feet again. This […]
Dear Capt Rowe, I was shocked when I heard you were no more. On the threshold of Diwali, you have gone away quietly, leaving tears in my eyes, without letting a soul know what you were feeling. Probably, you knew it was time …do we all know when ‘the’ time comes? I often wonder. Honestly, […]
She was on top of the world and her heart was soaring. She was going to meet her husband after one whole year. And she remembered how it had all begun. She was 20 and nothing could stop her cup of joy from brimming over. She was in love. With a real man. A man […]
I have caught myself telling myself “It’s OK” at all hours – odd hours, even hours, work hours, family hours, cooking hours, even sleep hours! So much so that it has, unbeknownst to me, gained admission to my class of habits and comes as naturally to me, as a sneeze in the middle of a […]