Shweta Tripathi: Warrior Of Good Cheer

Shweta Tripathi: Warrior Of Good Cheer

Soon after the completion of this year’s sleeper hit Masaan, actor Richa Chaddha told Vicky Kaushal and Shweta Tripathi, “Say bye bye to anonymity.”  Prophetic words in retrospect and Shweta relearns their truth everytime she wants to retreat to anonymity. She smiles, “This is an industry where appearance matters and there is no denying that. It’s […]

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Modern Classics: Black Friday

Modern Classics: Black Friday

We recall  Black Friday, perhaps the most perfect film in Anurag Kashyap’s oeuvre, timeless and relevant still because of what it says and the righteous rage it exhibits against the failures that allow intolerance to thrive. There is a 12-minute chase scene in the first half of Black Friday between a few police men and a […]

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Shaitan: Wilfully Irreverent

Shaitan: Wilfully Irreverent

It is hard to say if Anurag Kashyap Inc is intentionally subverting the vocabulary of romance in Hindi films but there is no deference towards it, either. So the sepia memory of Dev Anand running across glades and slopes under an open sky to the tune of Khoya Khoya Chand becomes a remix in Bejoy Nambiar’s Shaitan. The […]

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I Am Not Invisible…

I Am Not Invisible…

In the 1950s, Ralph Ellison wrote a novel called Invisible Man about the existential invisibility  of African Americans and how the ‘other half’ simply did not see them. Their stories did not matter because no one acknowledged them as real. Among many other unforgettable lines, were these, “I am invisible, simply because people refuse to see me. You often doubt if you really […]

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