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…
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Bald Truths: Rating: One and a half stars: Going by the permanently morose expression on the face of the protagonist of Ujda Chaman, it seems like hair loss is equivalent…
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Watching a film, The Souvenir, at the MAMI Film Festival, made by a female director, Joanna Hogg, which was about a woman unable to get out of a toxic relationship with a…
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Womaniya Power: Rating: Three and a half stars Saand Ki Aankh is inspired by two real life heroines—Chandro and Prakashi Tomar—who defied the deeply entrenched patriarchy of their Uttar Pradesh…
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Sadly Unfunny: Rating: Two Stars The problem with making a comedy about sex in India is that the filmmakers, writers and actors are not as uninhibited as they think they…
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The Price Of Freedom: Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale got its second wind when turned into a acclaimed TV series, that indicated, rather disturbingly, that the author’s…
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What they say about luck meaning being at the right place at the right time, applies to Seema Pahwa. She was at a party when Naseeruddin Shah asked her if she’d like…
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They Call It Curry Western: Rating: Two and a half stars: Navdeep Singh attempts an ambitious film combining the style of the Hollywood western with an Indian period drama set…
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It has been over 30 years since Sushama Deshpande started performing her celebrated solo piece, Vhay, Mi Savitribai (Yes, I’m Savitribai), about the life of social reformer Savitribai Phule which has taken her to small…
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Wild Child Where the Crawdads Sing, the debut novel by Delia Owens, a wildlife scientist, has been on the bestseller lists for over a year. Reportedly, Reese Witherspoon, who has championed it in…