Braving The Ocean: “Fear not, fear not… a Koli fears nothing,” sings a deep male voice in the background; the ditty refers to rising tides and howling winds that a…

Where’s The Wit? There a time when political correctness was not an issue, and comic actors like Kader Khan, Shakti Kapoor and others in the post-Himmatwala era of rapidfire Padmalaya productions,…

Tug Of War: Successful filmmakers from West Bengal, with a series of hits and some award magnets behind them, Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukherjee, have made a Hindi version of…

The Girls Are Not Alright Back in 1950, V Shantaram had made a film called Dahej, in which a young woman is harassed and tortured for dowry. Over the years,…

Vagabond Virus: A Tamilian private detective, Meenakshi Iyer, living and working in Kolkata—this detail has no bearing on the web series, P.I. Meena, named after her, except perhaps to establish that the…

No Escaping The Camera: Finnish prime minister, Sanna Marin, dancing at a private party, was not spared the intrusion of the viral video, so poor Sajini Shinde (Radhika Madan), a…

Tumult Revisited: In recent years, filmmakers in search of patriotic content have made films and series about the Indo-Pak war of 1971, which resulted in the separation of East Pakistan…

There is a precious collection of essays out, titled 50 Years Of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited A Revolution. It is what it says it is,…

Hope Floats: There is a double take moment: that a film like 12th Fail has been directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra getting into Prakash Jha’s Hindi heartland territory and emerging with…

More Murderous Mayhem: The first season of Duranga, based on the Korean series The Flower of Evil, directed by the late Pradeep Sarkar and Aijaz Khan, had the intriguing premise of a…