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 society whose minds have been shaped to accept it all, no questions asked. Thankfully, the …
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 a movie that claims to have taken off where Lunchbox failed to tread. But is …
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 away from conflict, and working towards building a humanistic society.The symposium had dignitaries speaking on …
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! Triggering a farrago of emotions, HBO shared the trailer for the 2019 line-up and here …
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 wonderful journey of his childhood, the touching memories of his father, his insecurities, failures, then …
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 same old science jokes, It is time we say, Enough! The Big Bang Theory is …
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 conflict – subjects considered taboo for the age. Born in a small town called Badayun, …
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 one of the greatest movies of all time, the 1994 romantic-drama is about to get …
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 Joy Luck Club back in 1993. After it’s dazzling, sumptuous success, the movie is all …
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 by Manav Bhalla and Gheorghe Seran and directed by debutant Manav Bhalla, Lashtam Pashtam will …
