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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It’s so rare that you are allowed to touch a work of art that to be invited to walk all over it can be both intimidating and intriguing. On Tuesday evening, visitors who walked into Latitude 28, stepping over dozens of rubber prints, looked as bewildered as they would have been if asked to explain […]
The big, fat Indian wedding, with its larger than life sets and high-decibel music, has been the muse for many Hindi films, the latest being the blockbuster Band Baaja Baarat which made overnight stars of Ranveer Singh and Anushka Sharma. In the hands of Baroda-based artist Vasudha Thozur, the same celebration finds a new twist. […]
Love is blind, they say. Or is it? Your first love is your last love, most believe. But does love last forever? Love should be celebrated at all times, and everywhere, we’ve been told. What happens when this emotion begins to destroy, sometimes cruelly? Love is perhaps the one word that has been so oversimplified […]
If you are not out travelling to escape the Delhi heat, then it is time to indulge yourself in some of the choicest art that the city galleries have on offer. While earlier, a group art show during the traditional ‘off’ season was usually considered banal – as most galleries would merely put out their […]