Spare The Kids: The world seems to getting crazier by the day, so any outlandish scenario a writer comes up with, can be believed.  After the lyrical novella, Elevation, Stephen…

As the horrific rape-murder of Priyanka Reddy causes country-wide outrage, baffled attempts to understand what turns young men into savages and knee-jerk ideas about women’s safety come up, which are…

Marriage Story: Rating: 2/12 stars: There are two ways of watching Pati Patni Aur Woh, either ignore the sexism, and enjoy the one liners that fly thick and fast– because…

Battle Ready: Rating: Three stars: It takes a certain amount of bravado to attempt a huge historical that does not have any obvious audience-pleasing hooks. Ashutosh Gowariker’s film, tells the…

Vijay Kenkre grew up in a home, surrounded by theatre as his parents Damu and Lalita Kenkre and aunt Sudha Karmarkar were stalwarts of Marathi theatre. “Which is why,” he says, “I decided I…

Suspense Is The Key Alfred Hitchcock made Frederick Knott’s stage play Dial M For Murder immortal by directing a film based on it (in 1954).  Vijay Kenkre has directed a Marathi stage version called A Perfect Murder…

The Evil Within: April Satya Koushik has written and directed two plays based on mythology before – Chakravyuh and Draupadi—and his strength is clearly in his writing.  Raavan Ki Ramayan is written in verse, in the kind…

A new play Zoon: Noor Kashmir Ka, by award-winning playwright-director Purva Naresh, connects the story of Kashmir’s legendary poetess Zoon or Habba Khatoon, with conditions in Kashmir today. There have…

That Undying Spirit: Rating:  Two and a half stars: Over a decade after those horrific days that the city lived through, comes Anthony Maras’s Hotel Mumbai, concentrating on the siege…

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…