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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Sometimes I think I need to book myself a “Crazy, Table for One”. Everyone has been waxing eloquent about Sandra Bullock and George Clooney’s new movie Gravity. The only stunning planetary body you will find there is Sandra’s; she’s worked hard and each golden, toned muscle thanks her for it. I love space movies, from […]
Before I plunge headlong in this piece..a few questions.. What was Angelina Jolie’s leg doing on the Oscar stage? What? What? What ? Did it mistake the podium for the set of a Mr and Mrs Smith sequel ? Was it trying to distract attention from her emaciated arms? And that husk? Inexplicable. I almost […]
George Clooney has one of those faces that you trust. He could have gone in another direction and become your friendly neighbourhood axe murderer where the next day’s newspaper would have led with: “He was such a nice man, always had a kind word, we would never have believed….” Fortunately for both him and us, […]
We Hollywood groupies are a spoiled lot. Just because Ricky Gervais made the Golden Globes lip-smackingly outrageous last year, we expected him to stay true to his irreverent form this year. What we got instead were insults that were cringe-making, with no trace of 2011’s ‘there’s a grain of truth here so suck it up, […]
All hail Emperor Clooney! The Ides of March is such a smart movie. It explains politics the way Stephen Hawking explains the cosmos – with flair. It distills pure entertainment from a subject most of us find either aggravating or plain dull. And then to make it Shakespearean where you delve into what drives character […]