That Floating Tank: This is, says the narrator of the film, “my love story with Pippa.” It’s not a woman but a battle tank, the PT-76 that is the object …
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Many Shades Of Love: When there are still so many prejudices and misconceptions about the LGBTQIA+ community in India, not to mention all the legal dithering, it was brave of …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …