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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When they fought, he would make up. And eventually, in a few minutes, she would relent, and the world would be perfect again. So when he left home to buy a strip of medicines that she needed, locking her inside the house like he did when she was cooking and not free to come close […]
“What we really heal when we are intimate with someone is our relationship with our own self.” – Deepak Chopra. Actually speaking the truth about my self is the most difficult thing to do since there is so much self righteousness ingrained from childhood. A childhood that is sadly always trying to fit into an […]
A journalist friend says she feels murderous, well almost, when she receives press releases around Valentine’s Day with the opening pitch,”Its that time of the year again!” And am sure if the PR companies could afford it, the invites to various pink champagne events would come with heart shaped cakes, a cupid blowing kisses and […]
The shore whispers to the sea… What are your waves struggling to tell me? The sea is speechless… numb with a haunting silence… The waves unable to let the shore know, the bliss of every caress…every touch, The sheer contentment is in the ‘knowing’… nothing can part the sea from the shore…. An eternal Yes! Forever bliss.. to feel the […]
You walk ahead of me. And I keep pace with you when I can. Often, I lose sight of you. Suddenly…when I look down at a pebble I trip on, if I look at one of the sights that lie around me, if I stop for a moment to catch my breath. And you […]
I saw a dried leaf rolling over a lush green patch of grass, cracked along its bent spinal cord, edges falling into pieces across the length of the grass. It disappeared somewhere , probably on its path along with the wind, that too might have travelled across vast patches of land, sea and mountains. At […]
It flies over several horizons, sometimes chasing the sun, sometimes the moon, sometimes a constellation, in circles, in straight cut lines. But fly it does, across time and distance, over forests that have frozen over time into canyons and steep cliffs, over rivers that have turned to glacial masses, over seas that have crusted over […]
The wings of the wind, whisper words withered at the corners, while flying from your side of the ocean to mine, But they drown in the noise, and I try to find the broken shards of your words, but there are none.. When we were together , we watched our hearts dance in the frenzied […]
Watching Lasse Hallstrom’s Chocolat always revives me. And turns life into a piece of deeply dark, melt-on-the-soul chocolate. And its not just the luscious imagery of chocolate being pounded, melted, tempered, crafted and moulded into temptation that sates the senses. It just feels so right, this film because like a cup of chilli spiked hot chocolate, it […]
Pack me tonight, Pack my heart, Pack my pain, Pack my smiles Pack me and take me..to your safest place. Or Unpack me and watch me overtake all of your mysteries. Or Lets pack, travel and unravel continents of our hearts. Hear me! Hark, unchain me Or chain me forever! I hate to be lonely. […]
Relationships, too bitter, at times too hasty, Like a pinch of salt, Sometimes like a shot in a glass, burning your insides, Snapping into pieces, even before the rust sets in, Black like a coal from within, pearl white from the outside, Throbbing like a painful nerve, pumping memories dusty, Like the breathless floods, that […]
So many, and yet none… And yet one So much to say, but so in love with silence, So infatuated with control, but deep in love with uncertainty, So many beautiful illusions, but so in love with reality… So much love, at the right time and in the right ways… Ways so perfect, that you […]