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’...
“They want a girl who is slim, tall, educated, and from a good family,” says matchmaker Sima Taparia, as she flips between pages of marriage biodatas. Beside Taparia, her husband laughs. “They want everything.” Directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Smriti Mundhra,...
Shakuntala Devi is a biopic dramedy produced by Sony Pictures Network India and Vìkram Malhotra’s Abhyudaya Entertainment. Directed by Anu Menon, the film is a curious tale of a mathematical genius whose ability for mental mathematics is discovered when she is a...
