Teacher’s Pets: **1/2 The key line in Super 30, repeated often, is that the time when only a king’s son could become king has passed, now only the deserving gets…

As The Crow Flies: A materialistic western society is taken up by Mary Kondo, who teaches people how to unclutter and simplify their lives. The idea is not new; almost…

Over The Rainbow: Who could have imagined that a photo of Judy Garland and Maud Gage Baum sitting together on a film set, would trigger this wonderful book, Finding Dorothy, by…

Soggy Romance: Rating: ** The male lead of Mangesh Hadawale’s Malaal is the bad boy of a Mumbai chawl, which, in a film set in the late Nineties, with its heart caught…

Mumbai has an overactive theatre scene, but most groups suffer from a severe shortage of funding, which then results in working around available—and often inadequate– resources. Which is why, when Aadyam was…

Spotlight On Oman Jokha Alharthi’s Celestial Bodies is the first novel from the Gulf to win the  Man Booker International Prize—a book by a female Omani author at that, a scholar and academic. The judges called…

We have all encountered this—a kid lying on the floor of a store, screaming and throwing a tantrum till the harassed parent gives him (it is invariably a boy) what…

Heart of Darkness: Rating: **** An IPS officer with a wardrobe of natty suits descends on Lalgarh in UP on a punishment posting, and gets a taste of what the…

Toxin Factory: Rating: *** Vandana Kataria’s debut feature Noblemen, is set in an elite boys’ boarding school, and zeroes in accurately on what makes some men so toxic. The strange…

This Odd Couple Qissago’s production Jaana Tha Roshanpura, written by Samta Sagar and directed by Virendra Saxena, has a simple premise—unusual, but also believable—and builds on it with humour and…