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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Did your Mama ever say to you – “if you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all. “I think Mama was right after all. Words wield a great deal of power. The power to build and destroy. You see, every word has its own vibration which can affect the physiology of a human […]
Living life in the mass lane, Churchgate local fast train. Travel the western line, commute takes time Music for the journey, Rap MC’s, verses sublime Local moves from station to station, as folks get on and off, to their final destination. *** Train speeds by track side ghetto projects And retail establishments, house material objects […]
Before talking about living fearlessly, I have to talk about my fears. Some of my fears were really tiny. Like mustard seeds. A long long time ago, so long ago that I don’t remember how old I was, I was in the kitchen helping my mom cook. She asked me to pour oil in a […]
We celebrate Rajesh Khanna with 20 of his most memorable songs that sum up his charisma, his magic, his unsung range and his indelible impact on the vocabulary of cinematic romance. This is by no means a definitive list (and is in no particular order) or the most comprehensive but tries to capture some moments […]
Everybody seems to be running around, in search of something… seeking.. for that elusive love, relationship, object, peace of mind, security, work project or status symbol. And for some, it is a search to find the meaning of their existence, their purpose in life, why are they here, or answers to the eternal question “Who […]
The nation is outraged over the Guwahati incident. At least we are meant to believe this, if we are to go by the antics of hysterical TV anchors. And so? What is going to follow now? Outrage is a distraction. It lasts as long as the next one comes along. We will soon have something even […]
Here it comes again – another gory incident; a barbaric, heinous, inhuman and despicable act that has put the whole nation to shame. A young girl was molested by 20 men, in the open, in front of the eyes of many more standing there, or passing by. And we say we are living in the […]
Love. Who believes in it? Show of hands please? I believe it when I see it for real. In lives like Imroz and Amrita. Nargis and Sunil Dutt. Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi. Agassi and Graf. At a certain age, love was cinema, literature, music and what they tapped into. The raw material of hope, […]
It is perhaps the first novel about the intriguing world of art by an insider, one who knows the artists and the art market. Published by Hachette India, Artist, Undone is the debut novel by V. Sanjay Kumar – a Chennai based art collector and one of the directors of Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai – who […]
My first memory of Dara Singh is in the 70’s film Bhagat Dhanna Jatt, that I watched in Chandigarh’s Piccadily cinema hall with my parents on a night when we had nothing to do. My dad was not fastidious about films. If he wanted to see one, he found one playing near a theatre near him. […]
The shrill ring of the phone snapped you out of your reverie – 8:30 am every day. It was no surprise. It was the same person. Always. Hours passed like minutes, years passed like months – we grew up together. When the phone wasn’t engaged, we spent our time huddled over a scoop of ice […]
The yellow and red of the setting sun was in complete contrast to her mood. As she watched the horizon go from blue to orange to a dark purple, the waves crashed against her feet. She was thankful for the firm rocks she sat on. She knew that soon the world that she knew would […]