Coma Mamma: Rating:  One and a half stars: The idea of Gagan Puri’s film, Doordarsan, is delightful, but ruined in execution, probably by a small budget. Sunil (Manu Rishi Chadda)…

Rainbow Love: Rating: Two and a half stars Films in recent years have dug into small towns, where they portray the ‘real India’ which is quite different from a westernized…

Barely Afloat: Rating: Two stars: Some years ago, Mumbai had witnessed the strange sight of a ship running aground at Juhu Beach. Bhanu Pratap Singh saw the potential for horror…

Extraordinary Love: A character in Isabel Allende’s new novel, says “There will always be pain, but suffering is optional.” This thought runs through A Long Petal Of The Sea, as…

At the recently awarded Oscars, Renee Zellweger won Best Actress for the film Judy, in which he played, to perfection, the role of Hollywood diva Judy Garland. From all accounts, Judy Garland was a successful singer,…

As a tribute to I.S. Johar on his birth centenary, a look at his film Johar Mehmood in Goa): People of a certain vintage would recall I. S. Johar’s Question…

Pointless Retread: Rating: Two stars: When Imtiaz Ali made Love Aaj Kal in 2009, there was freshness in the characterizations and structure. He captured the Me generation of self-obsessed people, for…

Goa To Go: Rating: Two stars: These days, it seems quite possible for a film to be made only to cast actors with perfect bodies, because presumably that’s what the…

Roar Of The Lamb:   How can one not want to read a book that begins like this: “The owl flew screaming from the barn, its wingtips bright with flame.…

The introduction, Hardit Kaur Gill, daughter of General Gill, brings to mind a woman brought up in the rarefied, strictly hierarchical world of army cantonments; probably unable to make friends…