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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Just before The Dark Knight Rises began, my mind wandered off to evil. And its randomness. And its twisted sense of purpose. The Colorado shooting during the screening of the film that took 12 lives. The depraved pawing and mauling of a young girl in Guwahati. The molestation of another girl in front of a train […]
When I watched Karan Johar’s Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna sometime in 2006, I wrote a sympathetic review of the film because I felt it was being panned for all the wrong reasons. Yes, the film could have been made more intimately and less lavishly. Amitabh Bachchan could have been more like himself and a little less like the cartoon strip […]
Director Carlos Saldanha’s Rio is like a pop-up picture book where every leaf is velvet, every bird feather is silk and every page is a carnival. Here imagination is an emerald jungle that we can inhabit with jewel eyed macaws or simians who text “oo oo..aa aa” to their cronies and swagger around in stolen, human baubles. And a city where bull dogs do the samba in shiny briefs […]
There are two ways to carry the burden of winning. Either you drop the F-word like Melissa Leo or you climb on the back of the chairs in celebratory abandon like Roberto Benigni and proclaim without saying it that life is beautiful. Somehow the second bit is more wonderful to watch and more elevating. To win an award […]