Old Style Romance: There is something ineffably sad about a once successful and capable director like Rajkumar Santoshi stooping to make a film like Bad Boy. The film was quite long…

Crash Flash: It can happen only in a film — a flyover in a busy city being always so devoid of traffic that  bike riders wishing to make an illegal…

These days when urban women go about dressed in revealing outfits and seldom attract a second look, it was the death of designer Mary Quant recently that reminded people of…

Marie Curie – the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win two — is undoubtedly the best known female scientist in a field that…

Vampire Diaries: A large chunk of content on Indian streaming platforms remains in such a narrow circle of crime and comedy, that when a show breaks out of it, the…

Dry Heat: For most directors, the first film must mean something special, but not everybody gets a chance to revisit it. Tigmanshu Dhulia’s 2003 film Haasil took a look at campus politics…

Spy In The House: The idea is full of potential– harried homemaker, juggling the demands of husband, child and in-laws, is actually an undercover special forces agent. Why she was…

Epic Fail: The promos give some indication of what to expect– a Baahubali-ised version of the Kalidasa epic–but still the two-and-a-half hour visual and aural punishment inflicted by Gunasekhar’s Shaakuntalam leaves the viewer…

Glitz Blitz: Mithun Chakraborty was cast by B Subhash in Disco Dancer, because of his long legs. They had to match that dance-walk John Travolta did in Saturday Night Fever.  Back in…

Daughter of theatre veterans Vijaya and Farrokh Mehta, Anahita Uberoi has grown up living and breathing theatre. After training in New York and working on Broadway for a while, she…