Rise Of The Loser: Mainstream Hindi cinema may be slow to catch on to the complexities of a rapidly changing Indian society, but does understand easy slogans like ‘Follow Your …
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Whitewash Time: In Mumbai slang, choona lagana is to fool or con someone. Which is what six men do to a politician against whom they all hold a valid grudge. The heist caper …
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That Christie Gal: There have been unofficial Hindi film adaptations of Agatha Christie’s novels—like Gumnaam and Dhund—but for the first time, Agatha Christie Limited, which handles the author’s estate, has franchised one of her …
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The Man, The Poet: There have been plays about Sahir Ludhianvi, but they have been about his romance with Amrita Pritam, or there have plays about Pritam in which Sahir …
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Runaway Bride: As a tribute to Waheeda Rehman for winning this year’s Dadasaheb Phalke Award, a flashback to one of her early films: Dev Anand was already a top star …
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The Dev Debut: As a tribute to Dev Anand on his birth centenary, a flashback to his very first film. Although it is best known as the film in which …
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Some Things Change: The Graduate, the highly acclaimed 1967 film, directed by Mike Nichols from a novel by Charles Webb, was converted to a stage production by Terry Johnson, much …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …