All In The Mind: For years, till a certain awareness crept in, the word “mad” or “paagal” was the catchall for every kind of mental illness. Now thanks partly to…

Travails Of Parenting: Many a harried urban parent would consider the lives of the three friends in Raat Jawaan Hai a fairy tale. They are supposedly crushed under the burden of parenthood,…

Be Very Careful: In spite of reading warnings about online frauds and invasion of privacy,  most people are lax about security.  Nobody reads the terms and conditions before clicking on…

Grisly Gaon: A doctor in a Maharashtra village says that there is a proper hospital in the nearby town, but the villagers would rather go to faith healers and shamans…

No Longer Fresh: Last year’s Taaza Khabar was the acting debut of Youtube comedy star Bhuvan Bam, as Vasant ‘Vasya’ Gawde, attendant in a public toilet, who is granted a strange boon.…

Secrets And Lies: The comma in the title is significant. This Vandana Kataria film is called Love, Sitara for a reason. And it’s not that everyone loves Sitara, they are content in…

Murders  Most Foul: The Nithari Killings of 2006 had pierced India’s doesn’t-happen-here complacency.  The sensational case of murder, sex, cannibalism, necrophilia in a nondescript area of Noida had dominated the…

Runaway Bride: The best thing about Kahan Shuru Kahan Khatam is its running time, which is less than two hours; while that is ideal for a romcom, this one looks like…

Spy Vs Spy: This is a rare Hindi film that evokes the era of the Cold War, and the kind of spy universe created by John Le Carre, where secrets…

Whack-A-Terrorist: When Fauda (2015) was produced by Israel, the West Bank was marred by hostility between Israel and Palestine. The situation is explosive now, which could not have been anticipated by the…