Spy Chronicles: Created by Neeraj Pandey, who, going by his filmography, seems to be fond of espionage yarns, Special Ops (2020) was a slick thriller, which may have suffered in comparison …

Walking Tall: When we talk of gender issues, it is invariably about the suffering of underprivileged women, as if to say educated, rich women with supportive families are spared any …

When In Madurai…: A Hindi film set in Madurai amidst a conservative Tamil family is an odd bird before its strange plot unfolds. The only difference between this and any …

Spiritual Quest: Some of Makrand Deshpande’s earlier plays were inspired by mythology and presented his own twist to well-known stories. In his more recent work—RAM, KRISHNA and the latest BUDDHA– …

The Family Trap: What has been used as a one-scene gag in quite a few films—a man in love having to produce a fake family– has been extended to a …

Seventy years ago, in October 1951, the first episode of a television show was broadcast, that changed the way TV comedy was written, produced, shot and consumed.  I Love Lucy, which …

Corona Chaos: French film Huit Rue de’l Humanite—English title Stuck Together—must be among the earliest, if not the first, full length feature film about the days of lockdown during the pandemic. Directed …

Runaway Brides: The films of Ayushmann Khurrana and Rajkummar Rao have more or less captured the market on problems of men in small North Indian towns. Babloo Bachelor, directed by …

This exchange really took place. At a dinner in the Beverley Hills home of Benedict Bogeaus, junkyard dealer turned movie producer, he declared to his showbiz guests, “We have a woman …

Hell On Earth: Dystopia is not that far into the future—we are living in survival-of-the fittest times. Korean writer-director Hwang Dong-hyuk turns human fear, greed and gambling instinct into a terrifying nine-part …