Bridezilla Strikes:   There can be no wedding in our country, without high stress and drama, some of which playwright-director Veena Bakshi has captured with humour in Ank’s production of Hamari Neeta Ki Shaadi.…

Land Of Half Lives:   News footage coming out of Kashmir is full of violence, and soldiers watching over an uneasy calm that could blow up in their faces if…

Snatched From Headlines:   Daniel Silva’s astonishingly topical thrillers have plots that could actually have taken place, outside of the writer’s imagination; in fact, a few of his books have…

Bihari Blues: Rating: * 1/2 Only in a crazily patriarchal and lawless society like Bihar could the system of ‘pakadwa shaadi’ even exist, under which eligible men are kidnapped and…

If, a few years ago, somebody had suggested that 007 should be a woman, they would have been laughed off the studio lot. However, today, a production company  sees the…

The Girl Who Came To Dinner: No matter how liberal a family may be, when the possibility of a son or daughter choosing a partner from outside the community comes…

The Hakim Of Hoshiarpur Rating: ** There are ads hidden in the newspapers, and pamphlets plastered on walls—so-called ‘experts’ promising to solve all sexual problems. But people use weird euphemisms…

Stardust In Her Eyes: Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love (2006) was turned into a movie starring Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem, so the writer took a backseat. Based on the…

A Witless Comedy : Rating: *i/2 The kind of cinema Rohit Jugraj’s Arjun Patiala attempts to spoof–the ‘scriptless’ formula Bollywood caper comedy movie– is so ridiculous anyway, that the joke…

Batty Bobby: Rating: Three stars In Hindi cinema, “paagal” means characters dressed in tatters, laughing hysterically, so in a sense, Judgementall Hai Kya is different, in that it tackles the complexities of…