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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On Aamir Khan’s birthday today..we look back at one of his milestone productions..Dhobi Ghat… There is a moment in Basu Bhattacharya’s Anubhav when from a penthouse where the film is set (owned by Tanuja in real life), you see Mumbai or Bombay as it was in 1970s, waking up to a lazy dawn. There is […]
I enjoyed imagining that director Raaghav Dar, maybe unconsciously, maybe while casting or perhaps even while writing, had seen Prateik as I do, and then put him in My Friend Pinto and asked me, “Is this how you see him?” Like the painting the don has made for Reshma, the film is not great art, […]
“Mere uncle ki life pe bhi ek picture bana tha..Albert Pinto..unko gussa bahut aata tha,” says Prateik Babbar’s Pinto and this is one of the few genuinely funny lines in My Friend Pinto. Director Raaghav Dar is obviously inspired by the bumbling, golden-hearted Chaplin who runs into vases, people and disasters and somehow emerges unscathed, […]
First things first. This is not the first time Prakash Jha has made a film on education. He made Hip Hip Hurray (1984), possibly the first Indian sports film set in a school. It was among other things, a comment on the equation between students and teachers. He never was a creative opportunist. Or someone […]