Hard-Boiled Detective Sara Gran’s tough-yet-vulnerable protagonist, Claire DeWitt, belongs to the best tradition of those never-say-die, hard-boiled detectives of classic noir crime fiction. A female version of Dashiell Hammett or…

Exam Scam The problem with India’s education system is far deeper that what Why Cheat India can even attempt to get at. The extent of the rot is conveyed through a list of statistics at…

Manic Mumbai For a first-time director –Pia Sukanya– to even attempt a film like Bombairiya is as admirable as it is foolhardy, because a plot in which multiple characters run riot for…

A Woman Scorned Delhi-based theatre producer, director and writer, Atul Satya Koushik has been bringing his productions to Mumbai regularly. His plays, belonging to diverse genres from mythologicals to comedies…

Soyare Sakal is the fifty-seventh production by Bhadrakali Productions, the group established by the late Macchindra Kambli, over three decades ago, with a Malwani play Chakrapani. After his death in 2007, his…

   Earlier this year, Glenn Close, won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in The Wife, based on Meg Wolitzer’s 2003 book, about the unequal marriage between a writer and…

Ballard Meets Bosch In The Last Show, Michael Connelly had introduced a fiery new female character, Renee Ballard,  an LAPD cop, who chose to accept the night shift rather than put…

Theatre Of The Absurd The Accidental Prime Minister, based on Sanjaya Baru’s book of the same title, and directed by Vijay Ratnakar Gutte, is a clumsy attempt to take potshots…

Tribute To The Army The Indian army should not need an endorsement, but the way things are in various troubled parts of the country, a shout out to express admiration…

Crazy Chaos As the audience walks into the theatre, actors in costume are rushing about looking for a dog that is meant to be in the play, but has run…