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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…