This happens quite often. A middle-aged woman, say aged 50, is standing in a queue. A man will casually saunter ahead of her. She will either not protest, or if …

Love Lost: The title of this film, directed by Shashant Shah, comes from the actual name of an operation launched by the police in Delhi and parts of north India. …

  The viewer gets a non-touristy look at London, but there was no real reason for this series to be set in the UK capital. The comparison to Luther, with its troubled …

Rewind, Remind: It has been almost a quarter of a century since Stephen Belber’s Tape first opened in 1999, and in the intervening years, the #MeToo movement brought to the …

Don’t Mess With Mom: The six-part series, Mai, begins with Sheel sweeping the house, washing and drying clothes, cooking, to establish that the woman (Sakshi Tanwar) is an ‘ordinary’ homemaker.  As …

Ulka Mayur describes herself as an Indian theatre artiste, storyteller, writer, actor, director and folklorist. She is also a dancer, scholar and founder of the production company, Story Circus, with her husband, …

The Outlaws Of Chambal: Fifty years ago, the first mass surrender of dacoits had taken place in a Chambal village (source a report in The Hindustan Times by Shruti Tomar …

Platitudes about motherhood abound – Child gives birth to Mother, or God could not be everywhere, so he created the mother. Deification of the mother is built into most cultures, …

Pass Class: Harit Pradesh could stand in for any North Indian state, where uneducated and corrupt politicians rule, and amass a great number of followers, for whom showmanship and oratory …

Retired, Not Redundant: Most films about senior citizens are weepies about how they have been abandoned by their selfish children; of late there have been a few about finding love …