App Troubles: Yet another opposites attract film by Dharmatics and Vivek Soni, who, before the new Netflix movie Aap Jaisa Koi, had directed Meenakshi Sundareswar. The story by Radhika Anand takes its…

Landing On Earth: If not mainstream Bollywood, at least through streaming platforms urban India is getting a look at how rural India functions.  The Panchayat seasons and a few others like it,…

The birth anniversary of Barbara Cartland went by in July month, and 2025 marks the 100th year of the publication of her first book, Jigsaw. Today, hardly anybody remembers her, but at…

Goan Interlude: As a tribute to Guru Dutt on his 100th birth anniversary, a flashback to his film Jaal. After making a hit debut as director with Navketan Films’ Baazi…

Lost And Found: The 2019 Tamil film KD, was a delightful story of the unlikely bond between an 80-year-old man and an orphaned child, probably inspired by the Pete Doctor’s 2009 animation…

Two Women And A House: This year’s winner of the 2025 Women’s Prize, recently announced, is The Safekeep, a debut novel by Yael van der Wouden, which competed with a remarkable shortlist of powerful women’s…

Mumbai’s Monk: The series, Monk on which the new show Mistry is based, came out in 2002; almost a quarter of a century ago, it was cute to have a male…

The Real Champs?: The Spanish film Campeones (2018), directed and co-written by Javier Fesser,  was based on a true story of a team in Valencia, made up of people with intellectual disabilities.…

Phulera Politics: It couldn’t last—the rural paradise that is Phulera, in UP, had to encounter violence and wickedness, which happened by the end of Season 3. The popularity of this…

Hungarian Adventure: The introduction given to the titular character is cute, Detective Sherdil, not so much. Because he is played by Diljit Dosanjh, whose stardom is at an ascendant, and he…