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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …