Love & Loss: This book finds itself on every list of Best of 2019, capturing with compassion the upheavals in the lives of the Conroy siblings over five decades. At…

Baby Blues: Rating: Three stars In Raj Mehta’s dramedy, Good Newwz, the why not adopt question is met with the conservative  “apna khoon” answer. So two women desperate to have children,…

It’s the end of the year and time to check on the progress made by women in the Hindi film industry—have they inched forward at all? Yes, if the graph…

As Trishla Patel sets to open her new production of Catch 22,  revisiting an interview with her last year. Trishla Patel arrives from the rehearsal of the Naseeruddin Shah-directed Aurat…

Three To Tango: The plays Abhishek Pattnaik writes have unusual ideas, but he is an excellent actor too. His performance as a middle-aged Oriya professor in Two Adorable Losers was brilliant,…

Peter ‘Chulbul’ Pan Returns: Rating: Two stars Chulbul Pandey the comic-cop has become like the money kept under the mattress for emergencies; every time a few films come around that…

Reacher Unchained :   Jack Reacher, is a remarkable character created by bestselling writer Lee Child. He is a former army man who decided, on leaving his job, that he…

As Rangbaaz’s popular play Bade Miyan Deewane returns for more shows, revisiting an interview with the irrepressible Imran Rasheed. When Imran Rasheed did a play called Phir Se Shaadi on the problems arising in the…

Token Feminism: Rating: 2 & 1/2 stars As with the first film in 2014, the problem begins with the title. A woman who makes a place for herself in a…

The Jaipur Theatre Festival was established in 2001 by 3m Dot Bands Theatre Family, and renamed Jaipur Rang Mahostava or Jairangam in 2012. Thanks to the commitment of Festival Director…