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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Even before I met artist and sculptor Dimpy Menon, I met her art. On my way to work many years ago, I would pass an art gallery and often see on its feature wall, the doodle of a human figure cradling a lotus. Just a few lines but there was immense warmth in their flow. […]
During the last India Art Summit held in Delhi this January, Bharti Kher’s untitled triptych made out of her trademark stick-on bindis reportedly fetched Rs 1.9 crore, slightly higher than husband Subodh Gupta’s acrylic on canvas that went for Rs 1.2 crore. Somnath Hore’s Congregation in a Village sold for Rs 75 lakh, a Ravinder Reddy […]
Unboxed Writers introduces Art Beat, a fortnightly column that takes you to people, places and trends in art, tracks prices that rise and fall, artists who have made it and also the ones to watch out for, events that become the talk of the town and those which don’t live up to the hype. Have […]