A Dull Season: The new season of any series should not assume that audiences have seen the previous ones. There should be a way of taking the plot forward, without …

Again Badlands Of Bihar: This Netflix series produced and written by Neeraj Pandey is based on the book, Bihar Diaries: The True Story of How Bihar’s Most Dangerous Criminal was …

Art & Action: Writer, director, and lead actor Rishab Shetty’s Kantara demonstrates once again, what mainstream Hindi cinema is missing out on—stories that connect to the heart of India.  After a …

Baby Daddy: In 1994, Ivan Reitman directed Junior, a film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in which a scientist working on a fertility drug tests it on himself and finds himself pregnant. The …

The Sisterhood: In the Hindi film space, stories of female bonding go into the Veera Di Wedding box–rich young women on a trip to enjoy themselves, and maybe discover some hitherto …

The High Of Friendship:  A character in Uunchai speaks a few times of two lessons learnt from every experience; so to use that method, the first takeaway from watching this Rajshri production …

Five years ago, reporters from the New York Times dropped a bombshell by exposing sexual harassment in Hollywood, with Harvey Weinstein’s misconduct being just a tip of the deeply misogynistic iceberg. The difficult …

Marry-Go-Round: As a playwright, Makrand Deshpande is at his best when he is not bound by the compulsion to please an audience and can work with abstract concepts. He has …

Art For Justice: A stage actress asks the female director of the play they are reheasing, that if she cannot get justice through art, then what’s the point? Adishakti’s Bhoomi adapted …

Royal Shenanigans: Coming out as it does a few weeks after the death of Queen Elizabeth II (and some months after Prince Philip’s passing) the beginning of Season 5 of The …