April Departs

April kicked off on a good note. A really good note. The plot vagaries of Detective ByomkeshBakshy! aside, Dibakar Banerjee’s edgy adaptation at leas...

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Shanti Dhakad of Madhya Pradesh’s Raisen district got married when she was 13. Six years later, her husband died in an accident, forcing the illiterate Dhakad into ma...

Obama To Call For End To ‘Conversion’ Therapies For Gay and Transgender Youth.

A 17-year-old transgender youth, Leelah Alcorn, stunned her friends and a vast Internet audience in December when she threw herself in front of a tractor-trailer after writ...

The Brave New Bollywood Of Deepika, Big B, Ranveer Where Stars Talk About Their Frailties

If you grew up in the ’90s, you probably remember the public service ad in which Shabana Azmi holds a child suffering from AIDS and gently chides the audience by sayi...

A JUDICIAL MILESTONE

Last Sunday night, after the Roop Kanwar case, Bhanwar went back to another landmark in judicial history. The last jury trial in India. In the...

Sex and sensibility: Bollywood erotica in the time of Censor curbs

From Satyam Shivam Sundaram (1978), Utsav (1984), Anubhav (1986) and Kama Sutra (1996) to the more recent Jism (2003) and Murder (2004), you can hardly call erotica novel i...

Deepika Padukone gets thumbs-up for her mental health initiative

B-Town’s gorgeous and talented Deepika Padukone recently took a bold step by talking about how she personally underwent anxiety and depression last year. It was hard ...

CBFC Mulling Online Methods To Expedite Film Certification Process: Nihalani

Even as the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) is facing flak on social media for asking singer Mihir Joshi to beep the word ‘Bombay’ from the lyrics of...

Hawaizaada

Critics rating: 1.5 Stars

Cast:  Mithun Chakraborty, Ayushmann Khurrana, Pallavi Sharda.

Direction:...