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 …

Cousins And Buddies: A simplified version of Anjali Menon’s Malayalam film, Bangalore Days, Yaariyan 2, directed by Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru is a collection of music videos with a bare minimum …

Struggles Of An Immigrant: Not too long ago, the Nepali security guard was ubiquitous in a city like Mumbai, where almost every apartment complex employed a succession of men called …