True Review Television - New Beginnings, New Content

It’s been a week of new shows and annual shows showcasing a makeover. The weekend marked endings and a beginning. Monday night too signaled a beginning.

Satur...

Dil Ka Haal Sune Dilwala

Growing up in Calcutta gave us grounding in sound middle class values out of which I was constructed. We lived in a four room rented ground floor place, P92 SardarSankar Ro...

The End of Big Data

Personal data is anything but personal. Our phones and televisions listen in on us; the most powerful corporations in the world trade in consumer tics, browsing histories, ...

Kaleidoscope - Book Lovers’ Books

For bibliophiles, books about book lovers offer an additional thrill…of belonging to a special community that lives its own universe of words.

The idea o...

Vidya Balan Turns Coolie For A Female Porter

AN ardent advocate of women’s empowerment, Vidya Balan brought cheer to Rajasthan’s first female coolie, Manju, by taking up her back-breaking work for Saturday...

Content Makeover

Television channels are known to have shrugged their shoulders at non-Hindi preferred viewers. The argument being: these eyeballs aren?t money spinners. It is indeed ironic...

This Japanese Band Makes Music With E-Waste

Open Reel Ensemble love producing weird sounds from obsolete tech?the more warped the better. The Japanese musicians connect old tape recorders, television sets, and ventil...

True Review Movie-Hindi: Chalk n Duster

Critics rating: 1.5 Stars.

Cast: Juhi Chawla, ShabanaAzmi, ZarinaWahab, Divya Dutta, Upasna Singh.

Direc...