Amazon Prime Video released Chhalaang, starring Nushrat Bharucha & Rajkummar Rao, on Diwali as a part of the festive line up for the festival of lights. Nushrat Barucha told me that the movie is about taking a “leap of faith” and making choices that will change...
Under the dark cloud of COVID, watching comedy has been my panacea. Bollywood veteran villains of our childhood in India: Pran, Prem Nath, Prem Chopra, Amjad Khan, and Amrish Puri ruled the silver screen. We disliked their wicked characters but we repeated their...
There is something about the first few decades of India’s incarnation as an independent nation which holds a romantic fascination for our collective desi imagination. One thinks of a world of black and white movies, of carved wooden swings creaking gracefully in...
Bandish Bandits is a romantic drama series between two opposites: Radhe (Ritwik Bhowmik) a musical prodigy from the Rathod Gharana of Jodhpur and Tamanna Sharma (Shreya Chaudhary), a young and beautiful rockstar. Shreya fits the role to perfection because she is...
Gunjan Saxena, Netflix’s recent release about the first female to become an Indian IAF officer couldn’t have been timed better. There has been a cloudburst of ‘firsts’ in the cultural, social, and political spheres of our world for a couple of years, now. The ‘Me Too’...
