As Mita Vasisht starts a long run of her play, Lal Ded, this week, here’s revisiting a recent interview : In spite of keeping busy with films, television, web series, …

Breathless In Bhopal: Rating: Three stars Ashwini Iyer Tiwari’s Panga may be about women following their dreams (the phrase is a cliché now), but it is actually an ode to …

Plotless, Pointless: Rating: 1-1/2 stars Groups of dancers in Remo D’Souza’s Street Dancer 3D keep demanding something new, but the director serves up a film that is same old… without …

Devika Rani returns for another run– posting an interview with the prolific Joy Sengupta:   Joy Sengupta has at least four plays running at any given time, he also does films, ads …

In 1980, a film was released, called 9 to 5, a comedy set in an office, managed by an obnoxious and sexist boss. This was a few years after the …

Come Back Mister Rogers: Rating: Three and a half stars: Fred Rogers, host of the beloved, long-running children’s TV show, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, is an American phenomenon, but as a man representing …

The Sisterhood Way: The completion of 300 shows of Sangeet Devbabhali is a good time to revisit a review written in 2018. A man ignores his wife and home because …

Saffron Trending: Rating: Three stars: It is time for producers with deep pockets to bring out unsung heroes from Indian history. It is also obvious that these characters and events …

Splash Of Courage: Rating: Three stars There have been films made before Meghna Gulzar’s Chhapaak, on the unimaginably horrific crime of acid attacks on women, notably the Oscar-winning documentary, Saving Face (2012) by Sharmeen …

Two recent novels, led to the discovery of a remarkable initiative in the early twentieth century, in Roosevelt-era America–the Works Progress Administration’s Pack Horse Library Project. Best-selling author Jojo Moyes’s …