Muscle Madness: Rating: 1 & 1/2 stars: If there is a Commando 3, there must have been two films before it, but even the most ardent Bollywood fan would have to strain…

As Ila Arun starts rehearsals on her adaptation of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, here’s revisiting an interview with her.   Ila Arun’s life is a whirlwind of plays, films and music concerts. She…

Where The Loonies Roam: Rating:  One star: Over the last few weeks, while promoting Pagalpanti, the director (Anees Bazmee) and stars have been going on and on about how much fun…

Death In Istanbul: It is commonly believed, that just before a person dies, their life flashes before their eyes.  Elif Shafak’s Booker shortlisted book, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange…

Dead Zone: Rating:  One star: When so much our new mainstream cinema is aiming to make sense, and tell relatable stories, Milap Milan Zaveri’s Marjaavan is just the kind of…

Cause And Impact: All four plays watched at the Prithvi Theatre Festival this year had one significant element in common, they were all about social issues that are affecting the…

Sona Mohapatra was furious because she found that female singers were not being invited to perform at music festivals, the excuse being there aren’t any. She created the hashtag #IExist…

A small film with new actors might have been forgotten, but for the fact that one of them went on to become India’s biggest superstars. Saat Hindustani, directed by KA Abbas…

Hair To Go: Rating: Three stars: At one level, Bala is only a film, an amusing, laugh-out-loud comedy, capturing the foibles of small town India; the kind of film that Hindi…

Last year, when this interview was done, Makrand Deshpande had hit a career milestone of fifty plays with a boisterous farce, Epic Gadbad. He (with his group Ansh) has subsequently…