The Fab Four: In 1990, Prashant Dalvi’s Marathi play, Charchaughi, directed by Chandrakant Kulkarni, was first staged. It may be a broad generalisation, but subjects in modern Marathi theatre have been…

At The Crossroads:   Yash Chopra started his directing career with Dhool Ka Phool (1959) and Dharamputra (1961), both strongly anti-communal films. In both a child born to parents of one religion is adopted by…

Come On Girl!: Hindi cinema has, in the last few years, started telling interesting stories about women, and here’s a film that digs out the old bored housewife chestnut. In…

A new book, The Girl In The Eagle’s Talons, written by Kristin Smirnoff (translated from Swedish by Sarah Death), which takes forward the hugely popular Lisbeth Salander franchise, has just been released.…

Dons Of Mumbai: Mainstream Hindi cinema went through a phase of making adulatory films about gangsters. There was a time, when, with some help from the media, gangsters were as…

Money Hodge Podge: There have been at least two recent web shows that made money trails interesting– Scam 1992 and Scam 2003.  Bejoy Nambiar picks up the intriguing idea of large sums of…

Skin And Bones: A few minutes into the film, there are enough indications of what to expect—a lot of casual violence and a bleak, amoral universe that a few filmmakers…

Marital Hurdles: In recent months quite a few Marathi and Gujarati plays have taken a look at the urban Indian marriage, with a non-traditional lens.  Om Katare’s new play– the…

Epic Romances: In a short span of time, Atul Satya Koushik has written and directed a wide range of plays from thriller to comedy, but he comes into his own…

Follow The Money: After Scam 1992 and Scoop, Hansal Mehta has cemented his place as a long-form chronicler of the moral erosion of contemporary India. He has not directed Scam 2003: The Telgi Story,…