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 am lost in myself …and then… I pause I reflect I scan through the images captured randomly on my mobile … I scroll my phone-book for names that ring a bell in my heart I ruminate over my Facebook ‘likes’ to understand what am I looking for… I consume the myriad emotions […]
So it really isn’t about asking seeking fearing questioning doubting waiting hoping wanting ** or hiding in that noisy room with our thoughts that chase each other till they get tired and fall into a wordless darkness. ** or the drama of denial the spectacle of anger the little betrayals of who […]
Who do I trust, which heart should I pry? Who should I call, when my lips tremble dry? Who should I trust with the saddest day of my life? Who would be by my side, when life is the edge of a knife? Who should hold me with strength ? Who should walk along […]
Sometimes those who watch you go by.. have no idea about your journey the roads you have taken to get here they only see who you are now or think they do and measure your human weight your life your work in the palm of their hand they know nothing because beneath the obvious surface of […]
So many questions I ask myself every day, About right and wrong, On how to decide what right is, and what is wrong, Since the moment the alarm strikes a chord, Till the moment my senses fade and drop, Questions of ‘how’s and ‘when’s, Of how to answer a question with a ‘no’ ? And if I […]
Why? Why does the power go off while you are watching your favourite movie but not in the middle of cricket matches or grandma’s devotional programs? Why do the phone and the door bell ring simultaneously when you’ve applied your face pack? Why do you have visitors ringing your doorbell when you’ve called it a day […]