In our country, what is measured ‘beautiful’ is often dictated by what’s seen on giant billboards, by advertisements that sell products to approved gender roles that are predefined and stab at our deepest insecurities – and most importantly, by our…
Once Again Is More About Complex Relationships Than Puppy Love
By S Juneja There is always a looming curiosity when a producer introduces a movie, ‘sort of a sequel to Lunchbox’. We agree that the 2013 drama, Lunchbox, has enough takers intrigued enough to sit through two odd hours of…
How To Give Peace A Chance
The TISS Convention Centre in Mumbai was packed to the rafters with people who had come to attend a symposium inspired by SGI President Daisaku Ikeda’s 2018 Peace Proposal. An event with a difference, it aimed at steering the world…
HBO Trailer Is Out & Here Are A Few Things You May Have Missed!
2019 is even more tantalizing, thanks to HBO! The network just released a short teaser, featuring bits from upcoming TV shows, new seasons and documentaries, and gave us what we wanted: the first glimpse of Game Of Thrones final season!…
Ruskin Bond’s Latest Is His Most Definitive Memoir
The most adorable and the most adored author Ruskin Bond has come out with his much-awaited definitive memoir, titled, The Beauty of All My Days. While with his earlier autobiographical work, Lone Fox Dancing—My Autobiography, he took us on a…
We Are Secretly Glad That Big Bang Theory Is Finally Ending
It all started with the audience exclaiming, ‘Hey, isn’t it funny how geeky these dudes are?’ back in 2007. The viewers chuckled at unusual phrases like ‘Bazzinga’, but after a decade of glorifying the nerd culture and relying on the…
The Literature Legend Of India: Ismat Chugati
Google celebrated the 107th birthday of a groundbreaking Indian writer whose work was celebrated but equally censored for its honest depictions of women’s lives. Back in the 1930s, Ismat Chughtai wrote on female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility and class…
We Pray Bollywood Avoids These Points When Remaking Tom Hank’s Forrest Gump
Bollywood’s history of adapting plot from the western movies, or making a remake, is nothing new, but every once in a while, we take an interest, when news started swirling about a Bollywood remake of Forrest Gump. Often regarded as…
5 Reasons You Don’t Want To Miss The Hollywood Buzz Crazy Rich Asians
The Jon M. Chu-directed adaptation film, Crazy Rich Asians, of Kevin Kwan’s novel of 2013, is getting some of its praises chiefly because it’s the first major studio multiplex release with a mostly Asian-American cast in 25 years since The…
Om Puri’s Last Interview
Om puriom aLegendary actor Om Puri passed away last year. We are in possession of the last interview Om Puri gave just after he finished dubbing for the film, Lashtam Pashtam, to the director of the film, Manav Bhalla. Produced…