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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2011 made us bid goodbye unwillingly and sorrowfully to… (Tribute: http://unboxedwriters.com/2011/12/satyadev-dubey-the-resilient-cactus/) Satyadev Dubey who wrote film dialogues like he was unaware of all the cliches and conventions that do not let cinematic characters breathe. And produced and directed theatre with a fierce passion that sought and demanded nothing but absolute attention and commitment from those […]
Like initial euphorias, there are initial griefs and then a deeper sadness.. Yes, am sad – 56 is too early.. But then I wonder, how much more this genius could have been. From that ‘Open Schematics’ company to a centrally controlled, controlling, censoring conglomerate.. From the garage to subcontracting to Foxconn with its 34 hour shifts […]
I do not know much about the legacy of Steve Jobs. Or about the must have marvels of technology that Jobs was instrumental in shaping the world with.The fact that he is no more however came as a blow for the simple reason that he made miracles look possible. He was a man who was […]
Trust is a frightening thing to dive into. It is far easier to stay in fear. In a state of indecision, it is far easier to believe someone else’s version of our life than to believe in the small voice that tells us from within, “Its okay. Just jump into the abyss.” I don’t understand […]