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 …

Foggy Memories: Kamlesh Mota’s new Gujarati play, Dhummas (Fog), written by Anshumali Ruparel, is described as “an emotional thriller”  which must be a term coined for Gujarati theatre, like “social comedy,” but …

Guns And Poses: Rating: * 1/2 Family Of Thakurganj is one of those films that collects good actors who can speak like UP-wallas, gets them to Lucknow, and hopes a script …

Chronicle Of A Death: Laila Lalami’s The Other Americans is written with an understated sense of the dramatic—a sudden death and the impact on people around, opens up like one of those toys …

The issue of sexual harassment in not confined to North India, but going by news reports coming out regularly, it is not for nothing that Delhi is known as the …

Teacher’s Pets: **1/2 The key line in Super 30, repeated often, is that the time when only a king’s son could become king has passed, now only the deserving gets …