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 …

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 …