by Geetika Pathania Jain | Mar 24, 2018 | Performing Arts
I noticed my mother had started to cry softly when we went to see Gurinder Chadha’s Partition era film The Viceroy’s House (2017). “Always, there is violence against women’s bodies,” she said, as if trying to make sense of the senseless. A line from the poetry of...
by Geetika Pathania Jain | Mar 9, 2018 | Films
Love and Shukla (2017) Directed by: Siddhartha Jatla. Written and Produced by: Siddartha Jatla and Amanda Mooney. Music by: Karl Heortweard. Players: Saharsh Kumar Shukla, Taneea Rajawat, Hima Singh, Aparna Upadhyay and Loknath Tiwari. In a scene in Love and Shukla,...
by Geetika Pathania Jain | Mar 7, 2018 | Films
“’Indian woman directs first film at 50′ doesn’t have the same ring as ‘Oklahoma woman gives birth to quintuplets at 40’, but Shit One Carries is my labor of love:” Shuchi Kothari. Shuchi Kothari is a Kiwi-Indian filmmaker based in New...
by Geetika Pathania Jain | Feb 14, 2018 | Bollywood in America
Ishita Bakshi and Muskan Bakshi, 9th graders from San Ramon, were smiling ear to ear as they strolled down Oracle arena corridor, resplendent in their dance costumes. Tonight was special. It was Bollywood night at the Warriors game, and Oracle arena was packed with...
by Geetika Pathania Jain | Dec 1, 2017 | Cover Story
Comedians, like clowns, have a special license to help us enter a liminal area where the boundary between reality and imagination is blurred. We can think of them as the “no man’s land” of political critique. While satire can occasionally cut too deep, with...
