BOLLYWOOD: SAME OLD LOVE STORY RETURNS

North Meets South, Clichés Meet Screen: Kerala Endures Yet Again! A tired cross-cultural romance that recycles clichés, Param Sundari offers postcard...

BOLLYWOOD: MAALIK IS BLOOD, DUST, SWAGGER

Even Earnest Rajkummar Rao Can’t Fully Rescue This Formulaic Gangster Drama. Pulkit’s Maalik is a gritty,...

BOLLYWOOD: LOVE IN THE TIME OF URBAN CHAOS

Metro… In Dino is a poetic exploration of modern love, weaving six urban stories through seasons, cities, and souls—captu...

MOVIES: DEATH BY DESIGN, BUT NOT QUITE

Inspired by a global star’s interview, Srijit Mukherji’s sequel to Hemlock Society teems with puns, pop culture, and philo...

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: FROM THE BY-LANES OF OUR YOUTH

A nostalgic reflection on François Truffaut’s Les Mistons, by Vandana Kumar, tracing cinematic memories,...

THOUGHT FACTORY: A REVOLUTION BREWING IN THE BURBS

A stunning showcase of six bold one-act plays, The Micro Theatre’s Set A captures the voice of Mumbai’s youth—raw, relevant, ...

BOLLYWOOD: FLASHBACKING WITH CHAUDVIN KA CHAND!!

Around two decades ago, Monojit Lahiri met the still-gorgeous Waheeda Rehman at her sea-front flat in Bandra’s Bandstand...

REFLECTING INDIA: AN ANALYSIS OF POPULAR SCRIPTED TELEVISION

An intersectional and longitudinal analysis of popular scripted television from 2018 to 2022, has been released by the Geena Davis Institute of...

PAINTING THE TOWN RED: VANI TRIPATHI TIKOO

Vinta Nanda talks to Vani Tripathi Tikoo about her recently published book, Why Can’t Elephants Be Red?, and about other things.

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