Say Boo : Characters on screen are often dangerously clueless, like the couple in Sam Bhattacharjee’s web series, Barun Rai And The House On The Cliff.  In real life, anybody with half a …

Unreal Estate:   So, Covid19 makes its appearance in a full-length OTT feature film, 36 Farmhouse (on Zee5), written and produced by Subhash Ghai, and directed by Ram Ramesh Sharma, a product of his …

Enter Max Craigie: Neil Lancaster introduces a new series with an upright cop, DS Max Craigie, as the protagonist, the PTSD-suffering ex-military man, who puts his career and life on …

Nobel Laureate Dr Denis Mukwege writes about a chilling encounter in his book, The Power Of Women: A Doctor’s Journey Of Hope And Healing—a young man insists on meeting him …

Knotty Love Triangle: After a story narration by a director in Ranjish Hi Sahi, he is told that he has just joined together bits and pieces of other films. This is …

Riotous Rajneeti: The not-so-humble upstart, Nograj, has had quite a journey from radio to YouTube to cinema in the form of the successful  2018 Kannada film Humble Politiciann Nograj, directed by …

Avneesh Mishra brought his group,  Rangshila, back on stage after the long lockdown break, with Iss Desh Ka Yaaro Kya Kehna, a satire written by Lakshmikant Vaishnav. “This pandemic period …

Fearless Femme Fatales : A young woman called Anarkali, who defies her powerful lover over a small matter, is literally walled into a tiny space, much like her namesake in …

Annus Horribilis: Humour could be the only way of coping with the troubles and absurdities of the year gone by. Carrying on the tradition set with last year’s satirical Death To …

The Lucy-Desi Show: At the peak of her popularity, the Lucille Ball-starrer TV show, I Love Lucy, had 60 million viewers, which gave her the freedom to overrule the director sometimes and …