Note These Shows, Please

When scriptwriters and producers think out of the box and rope in actors to support their fresh thinking, one can see the emergence of shows which could make viewers sit up...

Gajara Kottary on role of experts in content creation

Gajra Kottary is an author and award winning scriptwriter. She has published two short story collections titled Fragile Victories and The Last laugh, and two novels - Broke...

POLITICS AND COMPLEXITY OF CULTURES IN INDIAN MEDIA

Writing entertaining content is no longer about an indulgence; nor about the purging of an overwhelmed soul.

Neither is it about following directives of marketing a...

Censoring of cinema is a sociological, not a creative, issue: New censor board member

Filmmaker Pahlaj Nihalani was appointed the new board chairperson after Leela Samson, appointed in early 2011, quit protesting clearance to MSG, and alleging political inte...

Anupam Kher launches Gajra Kottary's book in Mumbai

Bollywood veteran actor Anupam Kher launched the book ‘Once Upon a Star’, which has been written by popular television scriptwriter Gajra Kottary, in Mumbai. Th...

TV Review: A SUITABLE ACTOR Television

There are thousands of shows currently being aired on Indian television featuring a few hundred actors. Most shows are imperceptible with lackluster performances, while a h...

Don't Reinvent The Wheel

How inured have we become to the over the top interiors and the same old locations (Gateway of India and Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus) at prime time, is unimaginable. We don...

A Cut Above The Rest

Life OK has a new show which is worth the eyeballs -- Laut Aao Trisha. A top line cast, with some fresh young faces and a kidnap story, each episode leaves you asking for m...

True Review: Divergent

Critics Rating: 2 stars

Cast : Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ashley Judd, Jai Courteney, Ray Stevenson, Zoë Kravitz, Miles Teller, Tony Goldwyn

Dir...