Sweet Music: Aakash Prabhakar’s first feature, Freddie’s Piano has been selected for the New York Indian Film Festival (June 4-13), as one of the 15 eclectic films from all over…
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The Formula Frays: The city is in the grip of drugs, the cops are getting flak from the media for a spate of deaths of young addicts. In a meeting…
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Song Of The Road: Ivan Ayr’s debut feature film, Soni, was about a policewoman committed to her work, forced to deal with sexism and entitled Delhi men. The film was…
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All In The Family: In our movies, the death of a woman’s husband is treated with full bangle-breaking, sindoor-wiping, melodrama, accompanied by ear-splitting doleful background music. So how is a…
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Jungle Law: It took a while to get Aravind Adiga’s 2008 Booker Prize-winning novel, The White Tiger, to the screen; the book was not great, but caught India at a…
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The Great Indian Family: If there’s one thing Seema Pahwa’s debut directorial, Ram Prasad Ki Tehrvi, does really well, it is evoking a strong sense of nostalgia among those whose…
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The original Coolie No. 1 (1995), a remake of Santhana Bharathi’s Tamil film Chinna Mapillai (1993), was hardly a masterpiece of comedy that a filmmaker would want to remake. Back…
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Cinderella Of Mumbai: Some years ago, a married film star was accused of raping his domestic help; when he claimed it was consensual, the response to it was worse—could he…
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Unscary, Unfunny: Raghava Lawrence’s 2011 Tamil film, Kanchana, the second in his Muni horror series, get a Hindi remake, probably because a recently woke Akshay Kumar wanted to say something…
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The Sad Clown: “An artiste performs for himself, and people watch him,” says the lead character in Nitin Kakkar’s gem of a film, Ramsingh Charlie. He plays a Chaplin impersonator…