Marriage Story: What happens when the communication between a couple reduces to non-stop bickering? Atul Satya Koushik’s new play, MY WIFE’S 8TH VACHAN, attempts to answer this question in a comic …
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The Complete Human: For its sixth season, Aadyam has looked outside Mumbai and invited Chandigarh-based Neelam Man Singh Chowdhry to direct a Hindi version of Hayavadana, Girish Karnad’s play, produced …
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Lost In Canada: This film, written and directed by Shadab Khan (on Disney+Hotstar) has the germ of an emotional cross-cultural family drama; it is sincere but also mostly marred by …
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Couple Calculations: Only in India would a young couple seek the permission of their parents to live together. And only in a web series trying to tap the attention of …
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The Man, The Movies: Two things immediately come to mind while watching the Netflix documentary series, The Romantics— if Yash Raj Entertainment had not been co-producers, Aditya Chopra would never …
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Le Carré’s People : For those who may have read the book by spy thriller maestro John Le Carré, and watched the series, The Night Manager (2016) based on the book– though …
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Gone Guy: At a time when journalism is under a cloud, it is good to see an earnest, fools-rush-in kind of reporter as the protagonist in Lost (on ZEE5), directed by Aniruddha …
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Rocky Road: A film sprung into the theatres without any pre-release buzz, turns out to be a pleasant surprise. Oddly titled Shiv Shastri Balboa — very few would immediately get the Rocky (1976) connection– …
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The Big Con: After two successful seasons of The Family Man, there was interest and curiosity about what Krishna DK and Raj Nidimoru would do next. Their film and TV work …
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February 11 was the 60th death anniversary of Sylvia Plath, one of the most admired and influential poets of the 20th century, who, through her poems, short stories and sole novel, The Bell …