Despite being the country which produces the highest number of films every year, India has never bagged an Academy Award in the best film category Last year, a small-budget film revolving around two Seoul families – one wealthy, and another underprivileged – made history. Bong-Joon-Ho’s South Korean film Parasite won the Academy Awards for Best […]

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Some films make you want to fall in love all over again – with yourself “You truly cannot love another, until you don’t know how to love yourself.” How many times have we come across such a saying? Especially in recent times, when dialogue around self-love was sparked by the prolonged lockdown– one knows its […]

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Despite the government allowing theatres to function at full capacity, a lack of big releases has people doubting if they want to return amidst a pandemic   The 12.30 pm show on February 2, Screen 4 of PVR CitySelect Mall was completely empty, not a soul in sight. The seats were empty, and even the […]

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Death in Bollywood, a three-part investigative documentary on BBC, attempts to further dig out the ever elusive truth Amid a global pandemic, the death of a young and talented Bollywood actor shocked the entire nation. News of Sushant Singh Rajput’s alleged suicide came as a rude shock to his fans; what followed afterwards was a […]

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A paraplegic woman draws inspiration from an injured magpie in Netflix’s Penguin Bloom What happens when a bird, despite having wings, fails to fly? Even when it looks up into the endless blue of the sky, what if it’s unable to soar high? One might say that the bird loses its will to live, feels […]

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What happened with Amazon Prime Video’s Tandav gives an indication of what’s yet to come Bholenath aka Lord Shiva questions Lord Ram’s ‘popularity’ or social media reach, and wonders whether he needs to change his display picture. He further questions since when did wanting freedom ‘become uncool?’ And the place where this play seems to […]

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Ajay Govind, writer-director, talks about his upcoming venture Madappally United Writer-Director Ajay Govind dons multiple hats. An English Literature Graduate from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, Govind has engaged with a range of projects all across India. In 2014, his debut feature film After the Third Bell released in theatres across eight cities. Since then […]

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Netflix’s Tribhanga explores nuances and complexities of a mother-daughter relationship Being a woman was and never has been an easy task – especially in a patriarchal society like India. Here, a mother is synonymous to a ‘care-giver’ and for her to have desires and dreams of her own are deemed wrong. Such a thought is […]

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