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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In Hindi cinema, physical and mental challenges are treated usually like plot twists and not really in the context of everyday issues that the differently-abled deal with. And most of the time, the details are sketchy. In Anurag Basu’s Barfi, Autism has been represented like a difficult childhood that has overstayed while an adult […]
Amole Gupte’s voice is a surge of warmth across the telephone line. “Reema..Reema..Reema,” he goes, summing up what he feels about his film’s review on this site. It is hard to sum up Gupte’s essence in a phrase, especially if it is a catchphrase. He is not this or that and he paraphrases a MS Sathyu film to say,” Kahan Kahan Se Guzre Hain, […]
After watching Amole Gupte’s Stanley Ka Dabba, you grasp one thing with absolute clarity. That Taare Zameen Par may have had Aamir Khan’s name but it had Gupte’s soul. It was Gupte’s intuitive empathy for a child’s world view, his understanding of what pains a child, what makes him smile and, his ability to disappear into a child’s tender, sunlit soul that made Taare […]