Jungle Law: It took a while to get Aravind Adiga’s 2008 Booker Prize-winning novel, The White Tiger, to the screen; the book was not great, but caught India at a …
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Men win glory in the march of history, and the contribution of women is often forgotten. Whether it is India’s struggle for Independence or the World Wars, women not just …
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Heart And Soul: Chris Whitaker’s We Begin At The End has been listed among the best thrillers of 2020, but to label it a thriller is to do it an …
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The Great Indian Family: If there’s one thing Seema Pahwa’s debut directorial, Ram Prasad Ki Tehrvi, does really well, it is evoking a strong sense of nostalgia among those whose …
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Today, top actresses post photos on themselves in bikinis on social media. But there was a time when an actress who showed skin was a vamp or a sex symbol. …
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The original Coolie No. 1 (1995), a remake of Santhana Bharathi’s Tamil film Chinna Mapillai (1993), was hardly a masterpiece of comedy that a filmmaker would want to remake. Back …
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Plum Pudding: When things look grim outside (a pandemic will invariably cause a few lows), a Janet Evanovich book is just the right pick-me-up. The bestselling author has created one …
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Stumbled upon a biopic—unauthorized though it was—of J.K.Rowling, who is undoubtedly a publishing sensation, the likes of which appears on the horizon like a rare comet maybe once in a …
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December 8 is the birthday of Dharmendra and Sharmila Tagore– here’s looking at a gem of a film starring the two. The Mumbai film industry does Hrishikesh Mukherjee a great …
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During the ongoing pandemic, problems of the elderly came into sharper focus. In modern society, ageing is not a gentle easing into retirement and a peaceful rocking chair existence, surrounded …