GOVERNOR REWRITES HISTORY FOR POLITICS

Film critic Arnab Banerjee examines Governor, a politically charged retelling of India's 1991 economic crisis, praising Manoj ...

BHOOTH BANGLA REVIEW: MISSED COMIC HORROR

Arnab Banerjee examines Bhooth Bangla, dissecting its failed blend of horror and comedy, uneven narrative, and wasted performances in this detailed review ...

REVIEW: HAPPY PATEL - KHATARNAK JASOOS IS BIG ON INTENT, LIGHT ON LAUGHS

The actor-director’s spy spoof aims for absurdist satire but collapses under stereotypes, scattered themes, and overextended gags, despit...

POWERFUL PEOPLE: BACK TO THE FUTURE

She has been an assistant director, ad filmmaker and a writer-director of out-of-the-box feature films. Ignoring every mandatory obstacle that ...

THOUGHT FACTORY: COMING UP… “LAGE RAHO” DAY!!

Life is a banquet, and I’m starving! Live fast, die young, and leave a sexy-looking corpse—Monojit Lahiri takes a ...

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: TAPAN SINHA’S EK DOCTOR KI MAUT

Tapan Sinha’s Ek Doctor Ki Maut (1990) shows how scientific research and innovation is not given its due in India, and how professional j...

पानइंडिया (PaanIndia!)

The history of Paan has mythological as well as historical and Ayurvedic references, writes Aparajita Krishna.

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FLASHBACK TO FORWARD

Today Aparajita Krishna is under the spell of stories of the past and present of Producer, Director Vinod Pande, Thespian MK R...

Shakespeare in Bollywood

Shakespeare travels, writes Farrukh Dhondy, in his piece on how well and how not so well the bard’s writing has been ada...