V For Vigilante: The first season of Code M, set in Jodhpur, had its protagonist battle encounter killings and homophobia in the army. It was interesting to watch a woman in…
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The Woman Who Would Not Weep: On Dimple Kapadia’s 65th birthday, revisiting her National Award-winning film Rudaali. The woman is called Sookhi Shanichari (Dry Shanichari), because of her notorious inability…
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History Revision: When ads of a film proclaim that it is about the last Hindu emperor, and its star states that very little is known about Prithviraj Chauhan, as if…
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The Way Of The Soldier: The 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai (2008), are indelibly inked in the city’s memories. Among the people who showed extraordinary courage, a few stand out,…
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Seeking Magic: What happens when a writer is unable to write? Writer’s block can be creativity-killer. And what if the characters he has thought up are annoyed to be left…
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Over the last few days, there have been more than the usual reports of domestic violence against women in the news. Even when women are killed, maimed, die by suicide,…
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Gullible People: When Prakash Jha’s Aashram came out (in 2020), it resuscitated Bobby Deol’s stagnant career, and gave the fledgling OTT channel MX Player its flagship show. The series about a fraud…
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Wildlife Adventure: For a decade now Shaili Sathyu and her Gillo Repertory Theatre have been specialising in plays for children, and also presenting unusual stories on the stage. Gillo’s latest…
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The Outsider: If the village-based series, Panchayat, were to be darker and less fairy-tale like, then it could become Nirmal Pathak Ki Ghar Wapsi. In this SonyLiv series too, the protagonist is a city-bred man…
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Back To Phulera: The first season of Panchayat came out in 2020, a little after Covid19 locked down everything and an OTT boom hit television viewers of the country. The Viral Fever…