Fighting Fire: Soldiers and police officers have been lionized in many films; Rahul Dholakia’s Agni (on Amazon Prime Video) asks why firefighters, who also risk their lives to save people,…

Back in 1962, KA Abbas made a film called Gyarah Hazaar Ladkian about the problems of working women in Mumbai. The leading lady is in the dock for murder, and when…

Boy Wonder: When Mark Haddon’s novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, came out in 2003, there was still a lot of ignorance about mental illness, and it was not…

The Heist: It seems entirely possible that the clever title was thought up first, and then a script written around a character called Sikandar, whose fate is like a drunken…

Dance Little Lady: After Yeh Ballet, the unusual story of two underprivileged Mumbai teens pursuing ballet, a dance form alien to their lives, Sooni Taraporevala returns to direct a  web…

Some More Chaos: It did not make much sense to truncate Tanaav Season 2 into two parts; at least the second comes before the first part has slipped out of memory. A…

Time Travel: A net search reveals that Naam was completed in 2004. It was titled Benaam then and remained unreleased, possibly because of the demise of the producer Dinesh Patel, or maybe some other disclosed…

The Plot Congeals: The novelty factor in the first season of Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein was that a man was lusted after by a woman, instead of the other way round.…

Love Hurts: Whenever Manav Kaul has turned his attention to children or young people in his plays like Mamtazbhai  Patangwale or Lal Pencil, they have brough to the stage a…

History Recharged: The book by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre was a bestseller in 1975—Freedom At Midnight told the story of the period just before India attained freedom from British Rule,…