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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Womaniya Power: Rating: Three and a half stars Saand Ki Aankh is inspired by two real life heroines—Chandro and Prakashi Tomar—who defied the deeply entrenched patriarchy of their Uttar Pradesh …
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Sadly Unfunny: Rating: Two Stars The problem with making a comedy about sex in India is that the filmmakers, writers and actors are not as uninhibited as they think they …
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The Price Of Freedom: Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale got its second wind when turned into a acclaimed TV series, that indicated, rather disturbingly, that the author’s …
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What they say about luck meaning being at the right place at the right time, applies to Seema Pahwa. She was at a party when Naseeruddin Shah asked her if she’d like …