Postcards from India As a tribute to Shyam Benegal who passed away on December 23, 2024, a flashback to one of his rare comedies  Charming, earthy and witty, Shyam Benegal’s …

Growing Up : Shuchi Talati’s debut feature captures all the angst of growing up, the ache of desire, heartbreak and the inevitable coming of age amidst bitter drama. In Girls Will …

News To Go: Hindi films tend to portray journalists as honest jholawalas, who often put their lives on the line to expose corruption, hold those in power accountable, fight social evils, …

Music First: The first season of Bandit Bandits (2020) was a family drama, with music at its centre. The story about a classical music purist Panditji (played by Naseeruddin Shah), his estranged …

On Location: Hollywood has seen quite a few behind-the-scenes documentaries about the making of films, which have mostly been included in the DVDs of those films as bonus content, and some …

Fighting Fire: Soldiers and police officers have been lionized in many films; Rahul Dholakia’s Agni (on Amazon Prime Video) asks why firefighters, who also risk their lives to save people, …

Back in 1962, KA Abbas made a film called Gyarah Hazaar Ladkian about the problems of working women in Mumbai. The leading lady is in the dock for murder, and when …

Boy Wonder: When Mark Haddon’s novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, came out in 2003, there was still a lot of ignorance about mental illness, and it was not …

The Heist: It seems entirely possible that the clever title was thought up first, and then a script written around a character called Sikandar, whose fate is like a drunken …

Dance Little Lady: After Yeh Ballet, the unusual story of two underprivileged Mumbai teens pursuing ballet, a dance form alien to their lives, Sooni Taraporevala returns to direct a  web …