Lost Childhood Before every film there’s a disclaimer saying no animals were harmed during the making of the film, but there’s nothing for children, says a casting agent First Act,…

Booze Up: The Government of Madhya Pradesh has been thanked, so it is clear that Dry Day is set in the state, in the nondescript town of Jagodhar, which is notorious for…

Crossing Borders: Rajkumar Hirani’s filmography so far has established him as a director with a unique point-of-view; his films deftly blend comedy and drama, and also sneak in a message…

Star Spangled Nostalgia: It took a lot of jumping through cultural hoops to fit the very American Archies comics ethos into India. The comics about the antics of the pimpled…

A Hero For All Times: The 1971 Indo-Pak war that resulted in the formation of Bangladesh has, in recent months, been captured on screen from various angles. It was only…

Back To Gangland: Had Shehar Lakhot been made at the start of the OTT boom, there might have been some incentive to watch it. Now, after dozens of small town shenanigans involving…

Let The Music Flow: The opening scene draws the viewer right in— it’s an open field, with crowds as far as the eye can see; there is air of anticipation…

A Few Good People: Had such a tragedy occurred anywhere else in the world, there would have been dozens of films made on it, but the world’s largest industrial disaster,…

Holiday Caper: The idea must have looked workable on paper—a dysfunctional family rediscovering family ties when on holiday. But, the journey of Harish Vyas’s Yaatris just never takes off. Having set the…

Crazy Clan: At a time when everybody is getting to be thin-skinned, Gujaratis still laugh at themselves. The TV comedy show, Khichdi, about the Parekh family, full of dim bulbs, was such…