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,…

Into The Spyverse: A young Mumbai woman, Aliya (Kashmira Pardeshi), finds herself trapped in Syria with her husband and in-laws who have been radicalized and thrown in their lot with…

Grisly Case: The gruesome deaths of 11 members of a family, ages ranging from nine to 71, that came to be known as the Burari Case, was a shocker at…

Old Man’s Orchard: Some stories are timeless and universal, even though they may belong to a particular era and location. Most underdog stories would fit into this category. Manoj Mitra’s…

Gutsy Girl: It took two Bollywood superstars considerable muscle and firepower to extract Indian citizens trapped in conflict zones — Akshay Kumar in Airlift and Salman Khan in Tiger Zinda Hai; in Pranay…

Retro Trip: The cars are Ambassadors and Fiats, the phones are rotary; there are STD phone booths with LCD panels displaying call duration, cassette players and tapes are still around,…

Just how far the influence of a designer goes can be gauged by how quickly and for how long their products make it to the market in fakes. Today, a…

Return Of God: The play Kanji Viruddh Kanji by Bhavesh Mandalia, adapted from a lesser known film, The Man Who Sues God, was made into a Hindi film by Umesh Shukla, Oh My God (OMG), in which God formed an important…