Horowitz & Hawthorne Anthony Horowitz is a bestselling author, who has written two Bond thrillers, Trigger Mortis and Forever And A Day, a Sherlock Holmes mystery, The House Of Silk, his own very popular Alex Rider series…

The Tomboy And The Tribal Hidayat Sami recently revived, under the Theatre Unit banner, Ramu Ramanthan’s children’s play, Medha & Zoombish, that actually speaks to adults, who create barriers of caste…

Politician Vasundhara Raje was recently fat shamed by a male politician who nastily commented, “And this Vasundhara, give her rest, she has become very tired… has become very fat… Earlier…

The Wounded And The Damned: A young boy looks at the hands of a woman and pronounces her age to be in the late twenties. When asked his age he…

Double Deshmukh When Mauli (Ritiesh Deshukh), walks into the frame in slow motion to rescue two abducted girls, his weapon of choice is a brick. This could be because Lord…

The Whistleblower Chronicle It’s a pity that Tigers, a film by Oscar-winning Bosnian director Danis Tanovic (he won for the 2001 film No Man’s Land, the year Lagaan was also a nominee), did not get a wide…

All About Women  When producer Manhar Gadhia put got seven writers to pen monologues and seven directors to work with seven actors,  Saat Teri Ekvees was an unheard of experiment in…

Enter The Maze The Mahabharat has so many stories that lend themselves to the stage. There was the classic Andha Yug and many versions of Draupadi’s point of view.  Atul Satya Koushik’s Chakravyuh places Arjun’s son…

Remains Of The Play Jaywant Dalvi’s Marathi play Purush, first staged in 1980 and was a huge success. Over the years, it has had several productions in many languages, and top…

The Little Black Box Two new plays under Aadyam’s Season 3, were staged at the G5A blackboxtheatre, and the experience of watching them was very different from whatit would be…