When Danish Husain introduces his stage production of Akhtari: Dastan Bai Se Begum Tak, he says the storytelling and music format was chosen as a tribute to Begum Akhtar, because the…
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A filmmaker who dares a remake — conceptual as he calls it– of a film like Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai, is already setting the bar too high. Saeed…
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Wild Child It is the stuff of nightmare—a child abandoned by her family, and left to fend for herself. She lives in an isolated area by the marshes, miles away…
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Till Ashish Kaul’s Didda: The Warrior Queen Of Kashmir landed on the desk, one did not know much about this wonderful character from Indian history, and that’s a shame. When great Indian…
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Does India’s intelligence network have talent scouts in banks? That’s where an amateur actor Rehmat ‘Romeo’ Ali (John Abraham), a timid mamma’s boy with a nerdy hairdo, is recruited by…
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There are two important questions asked by characters in Ashvin Kumar’s No Fathers In Kashmir. An old man whose son has gone missing asks a freedom-seeking militant sympathizer who he wants…
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It has been twenty years since Jaimini Pathak established his own theatre group—Working Title—and produced about 18 plays, directed and acted several of them, wrote one, along with acting in…
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How can a play about depression be warm, funny and inspiring? Duncan Macmillan and Johnny Donahue come up with the answer through Every Brilliant Thing—a one-man show that’s simple, yet complex,…
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In its quest to explore unseen– in cinema— places in India, Qasim Khallow’s Gone Kesh goes to the small hill station of Siliguri, though the story of a young woman’s travails could have…
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Just Half Truths The murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two young sons in 1999, by a group of right wing goons had shaken the conscience of the…