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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Everything becomes a memory one day. Some memories make us and some, we make. Some we edit, some alter us. Life is not just what happens to us but we think happened to us. But nothing is more vivid than the time when we were experiencing the world with untutored eyes, with young senses as […]
She dragged the last suitcase inside the room and flopped on the couch. She heaved a sigh of relief, closed her eyes for a moment and dozed off. A creaking sound woke her and she opened her eyes, squinting at first, then wide as she realized she had left the main door ajar. She got up to shut it. […]
In a packed Ranga Shankara auditorium (with producer Nimi Ravindran conscientiously paying auto fares to all those who could not get tickets and had to go home) on a Sunday afternoon, the second last show of Ajay Krishnan’s hit play Butter and Mashed Banana induced tears of laughter. And then some thought. And how is this for a […]
Gulshan Devaiah’s big moment is here. And if he does not become one of the breakout stars of his generation, it will be because the world is askew. He was one of the few reasons why an underwhelming Dum Maro Dum had its moments. As a manipulative, street smart recruiter of the unsorted young in […]
A few years ago, when I met one of India’s youngest and most promising playwrights Ajay Krishnan at the Ranga Shankara cafe, he was sitting casually on a bench, one knee peeking out of torn denims. For a writer and director whose play Butter and Mashed Banana had freshly won a slew of awards, had been short listed […]
On World Environment Day, I woke up to the smell of burning plastic. It was most probably coming from the garbage dump outside the boundary wall of our building, though I was too diffident to go look. It is not meant to be there, that dump but it grows unmonitored, unchecked everyday. Spilling over the road, claiming space meant […]
Sharmila Shah cuts a pretty picture but the pictures she clicks are not just pretty. They have something that comes from the core of her life-loving, vibrant personality. Sharmila does not do things in half measure. She enjoys good food, travel, music, friends and everything life throws at her. She makes the most of the gifts and the challenges of […]
Unboxed Writers present Master Chef Sanjay Tyagi’s column where he will share unique recipes enriched by his decades of work in various parts of the world. It will be called From Chef Tyagi’s Kitchen. Passion and discipline inspire Chef Tyagi to create dishes that are more art than food. After having nurtured Umerkot as one of Bangalore’s premier Indian restaurants, he is now busy nourishing Tattv. Tattv, which in […]
Chef Sanjay Tyagi never uses the garam masala in his cooking. “Haven’t used it for over 20 years,” he says. The reason? In his food, as in his life, he wants different flavours to speak for themselves. To stand out. To be heard. The affable, soft spoken Tyagi is as enthusiastic about his food as he was when he […]
The heart of Ranga Shankara is unusually quiet except for the insistent pulse of “Akbar bhai? Arre, lightwale Akbar bhai?” The auditorium is empty in the hours preceding the second show of Dayashankar Ki Diary, a play from the bouquet that Mumbai’s iconic theatre group Ekjute has brought to Bangalore for the first time. Unlike people who go to an auditorium to only watch […]
It is a calmer day than usual at Jagriti, Bangalore’s youngest theatre space. Squares of sunshine fall on the floor from the glass insets in the roof, two trees shoot from the floor to the ceiling, prints of Rabindra Nath Tagore’s paintings watch you with eyes full of many deeply lived lifetimes from a softly […]
A couple of years after I moved to Mumbai, a Bangalore friend of mine asked me if I missed living in Bangalore. I told him I did. He waited for me to add something to that response. After a while, he asked me whether I would consider moving back to Bangalore. I told him I […]