Motorcycle Chronicles:   If the quaintly titled Dupahiya (two wheeler) gives off Panchayat and Laapata Ladies vibes, it is because the enjoyable series (on Amazon Prime Video) is set in the same rural universe, which is…

Romance Undone: In case anybody entered the room late when Nadaaniyan was playing on the TV screen, they’d immediately know it was a Karan Johar (Dharmatic production). The characters look, act and…

History Unwrapped: The words inspired by true events are written and crossed out after the title The Waking Of A Nation. It is as if Ram Madhvani, creator and director of…

Demi Moore may have misses out on the Best Actress trophy for her performance in Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, but she won many others– the star not exactly known for her…

Food For Greed: The title is catchy enough to draw an audience into a housing society in Mumbai’s neighbour, Thane, where the residents are all employees of a pharma company…

Small Town Cinephiles: Today, anyone with a cell phone can make a film. But passion for cinema was tougher a few years ago. When Faiza Ahmad Khan made her wonderful…

Time To Unhitch: Many Indians would testify that after a certain age –particularly post retirement—the chief mode of communication between a long-married couple is bickering. Over the years, they have…

The Front Page: As any true blue journalist would agree, the crime beat of a newspaper is thrilling, because the chase and uncovering of criminal activity, with its whiff of…

Never Grow Up: In the Eighties, when melodrama was a popular movie genre, there was a spate of films, usually remakes of Telugu films, with Jeetendra starring in most of…

Maratha Braveheart: The son of a towering figure like Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj would need to do a lot more to prove his credentials as a worthy successor. His older son…