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 …

Wait To Exhale: The second season of the Raavan killer plot  of Breathe : Into The Shadows continues three years after the last one left off. (The first season was actually the …

Flaring Tension: Israel has steadily been making web shows that have appealed to international audiences, with remakes produced in the US (Homeland) and India (Hostages, Your Honour);  Fauda has been the …

Under The Radar: The world of spies is not glamorous—James Bond is a fairy tale. It is taking on new identities, going undercover in enemy territory, constantly looking over the …

Desi Ghost Busters: This one’s for film lovers, written and directed by aficionados of B-horror flicks—right from Hollywood Halloween zombie and stoner movies to trashy Indian horror films, so awful …

La Dolce Vita: The first season of Mike White’s comedy-drama The White Lotus was set in a luxury resort in Hawaii, where the lampooning of the pampered rich and the obsequious staff, …

In 1958, when ordinary women were not expected or encouraged to have adventures, American novelist Paul Gallico created the character of a London cleaning woman, Ada Harris—or ‘Arris in Cockney lingo–who …

Stranger Than Fiction: It is a story begging to be filmed: in the early Eighties a woman claiming to be the Begum of Awadh, a descendant of Nawab Wajid Ali …