The Worm Turns: The title Vadh suggests a grand warrior-like act of slaying the enemy, but this debut feature by Jaspal Singh Sandhu and Rajeev Barnwal takes the story of a small …
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Dissonant Notes: On watching Anvitaa Dutt’s second film, Qala, it is clear that she has the cinematic approach of an aesthete. Like her earlier film, Bulbbul, this one too is …
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Memories of Misery: Like images of a nightmare that may or may not dim over time, memories of those terrifying months of the lockdown are still embedded in the mind. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
