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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Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor has quietly passed into the night. And it is time to dust all the cliches about her and air them. Her marriages. The big love storms. Her near misses and then the two Oscars. Richard Burton. Richard Burton again. And the others. The diamonds. Her staunch friendships with the oddballs in pain. James Dean. […]
Yesterday, a tabloid that comes free with a leading national newspaper carried fuzzy but unmistakable images of a young couple being forced to get intimate in a public place by some perverts. The story was supposedly professing sympathy for the couple whose MMS was now being circulated widely. Yet the images carried by the paper, turned us all into voyeurs and added to the couple’s sense of violation many times over […]
There are life stories and there is life. Lived with passion, heart and soul. In all its entirety, its dizzying highs, its crashing lows. Accepted with all its flaws, hurts, blows. Loved despite its imperfection. Film and television director Vinta Nanda lives her life deeply and nothing gets to that core where hope is eternal. Vinta has the guileless innocence […]