Baby Blues: There is a worrisome trend, not just in India but around the world, that has conservatives trying to roll back women’s rights—what they wear, who they marry, how…
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Boxing Storm: The idea for the story of Toofaan is credited to co-producer and lead actor Farhan Akhtar, not even a nod to Hollywood’s boxing saga Rocky (1976). Rakysh Omprakash…
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Pulp Fiction Daze: The leading lady of Vinil Mathew’s film Haseen Dillruba (Netflix), fed on a mental diet of lurid crime thrillers, believes that unless there is some shedding of…
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The Formula Frays: The city is in the grip of drugs, the cops are getting flak from the media for a spate of deaths of young addicts. In a meeting…
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All In The Family: In our movies, the death of a woman’s husband is treated with full bangle-breaking, sindoor-wiping, melodrama, accompanied by ear-splitting doleful background music. So how is a…
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Jungle Law: It took a while to get Aravind Adiga’s 2008 Booker Prize-winning novel, The White Tiger, to the screen; the book was not great, but caught India at a…
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The Great Indian Family: If there’s one thing Seema Pahwa’s debut directorial, Ram Prasad Ki Tehrvi, does really well, it is evoking a strong sense of nostalgia among those whose…
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The original Coolie No. 1 (1995), a remake of Santhana Bharathi’s Tamil film Chinna Mapillai (1993), was hardly a masterpiece of comedy that a filmmaker would want to remake. Back…
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Cinderella Of Mumbai: Some years ago, a married film star was accused of raping his domestic help; when he claimed it was consensual, the response to it was worse—could he…
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Unscary, Unfunny: Raghava Lawrence’s 2011 Tamil film, Kanchana, the second in his Muni horror series, get a Hindi remake, probably because a recently woke Akshay Kumar wanted to say something…