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…

Some More Chaos: It did not make much sense to truncate Tanaav Season 2 into two parts; at least the second comes before the first part has slipped out of memory. A…