Accidental Hero: A key character in Hansal Mehta’s Faraaz accuses another of being a “Twitter debater”. The film, with all its earnestness and attempt to walk a tightrope between ideological differences, unfortunately…

Always Blonde: Pamela Anderson, as a Playboy model and Baywatch star, was once a favorite pin-up girl, “the most famous blonde in the world,” as she is described in a Netflix documentary, Pamela, a love story.…

True Love: There are stories all around if one knows where to look; and those who find them are sometimes suitably rewarded. Like Kartiki Gonsalves, who won an Academy Award…

Women Warriers: Had Srijit Mukherji’s Jaanbaaz Hindustan Ke come a little earlier, it might have evoked more interest; but after a whole spate of cops-and-terrorist shows and films, there is viewer fatigue…

Rain Or Shine: It’s not quite clear why filmmakers suddenly think audiences need to be lectured on condom use—Chhatriwali (on ZEE5) is the third film in recent times to take up…

They Also Made Movies: The current generation of urban moviegoers watching films in the comfort of multiplexes, probably have no idea about the subculture of C-grade films that ran in…

On the current New York Times best sellers list is a book by Tori Dunlap titled Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy’s Patriarchy’s Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love. It has…

Justice Delayed…: In India, we are inured to injustice, resigned to the fact that the rich will go unpunished. Still, a group of people fought a legal battle for a…

The Poet Speaks: Those were heady times, writers, poets, artists, joining the stream of progressive thought and expression—makes one wonder, in fact, how the work of these stalwarts could have…

Bad Cop vs Bad Cop: It is baffling. Why would a young director choose to make his debut with a film, as derivative and inane as Kuttey?  Nearly thirty years…