TORN BETWEEN TWO IDEOLOGIES – RAM RAJYA AND RAVAN RAJ

An excerpt from the book Mandodari, by Koral Dasgupta, released at Kitab Khana Mumbai with a conversation between the author and Avantika Bahug...

BOLLYWOOD TIK-TALK: AMID MANY THINGS, IT WAS ALSO TEACHER’S DAY!

From Shilpa Shetty Kundra to Rajkummar Rao, Nikhil Bhambri, Pulkit Samrat and Nargis Fakhri, they’re setting standards of all kinds, repo...

BOLLYWOOD TIK-TALK: THE NEWS IS BIG ABOUT ‘BigB’ AND ‘SRK’!

Bollywood rocks! Always. And this week the news is bigger than ever before, reports The Daily Eye #Newsdesk

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STAR BENEGA ACTOR? SIMPLE…LAGAO DE-GLAM FACTOR!

Monojit Lahiri examines Bollywood’s fascinating disease about every star’s secret desire to be hailed as an actor....

STRAW DOGS: POETICS OF VIOLENCE OR MISOGYNY?

Based on a novel by Gordon Williams – ‘The Siege of Trencher’s Farm’, it was also my first exposure and my starting poi...

NEED FOR EQUITABLE GENDER REPRESENTATION IN HINDI CINEMA

A new research report by the School of Media and Cultural Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, reveals that on-and-off-scr...

FILMS WITH TRANSGENDER FOCUS WIN BIG AT KASHISH 2023

Filmmakers from the LGBTQ+ community, specially the Trans* community, feature in awardee list of the 14th edition of KASHISH Mumbai Internation...

WILL WE TRUST EACH OTHER AFTER THE WAR?

This week Humra  Quraishi looks back at her conversations with well-known sociologist Professor Imtiaz Ahmad, who passed ...

AGEISM, STEREOTYPING AND PAY DISPARITY IN BOLLYWOOD

While Bollywood, masters of tokenism, has occasionally tried to counter ageism and stereotyping, it has mainly played safe, distancing itself w...