Law vs Justice: Rating: Two stars It is barely a few months that the #MeToo storm hit India, and the backlash begins– to use the word writer Susan Faludi employed …

Lonely Hearts Club: Rating: Three stars The novelty in Raaj Shaandilyaa’s film is that Dream Girl is a man. Otherwise, the idea of lonely men confiding in a woman’s voice …

A Soldier And A Hero: The astonishingly prolific David Baldacci, whose books come out at a dizzying frequency, without any drop in quality, creates a new hero, Aloysius Archer for …

Star-Crossed Romance: Devika Rani is in focus due to a play on her life and a book on the way. A superstar of her time, one of her biggest hits …

Losers’ Game: Rating: Three stars As a those-were-the-days trip, Nitesh Tiwari’s Chhichhore has its moments of youthful exuberance—though the sight of a bunch of boys in their briefs running about …

Squirrel On The Go: Shaili Sathyu and her Gillo Team is getting ready to get on to their Natak Bus and travelling to parts of Maharashtra—the group’s second such tour, …

Women United: Mainstream Bollywood movies tend either glamorize the hooker, or use the character to generate melodrama. In the cinema of the past, she was either waiting for the noble …

Deadly Funny: In India, funeral rituals are solemn affairs, and anyone who dares laugh would probably be socially boycotted. In the UK, of course nothing is sacred as far as …

Epic Bore:  Rating: Two stars It would be a challenge to encapsulate the plot of Saaho in a couple of lines, because it wouldn’t stretch that long. The Sujeeth film, …

Dead Man Laughing: The Gujarati production Aane Bhi Do Yaaro is the funniest play seen in recent times, and that’s saying a lot because there are so many comedies produced in …