With Riz Ahmed becoming the first Muslim to be nominated as the Best lead actor in the Oscars, cinema going global gets its meaning “…I think that’s what’s important is if it’s meaningful to other people. I just think the more and more people that can find themselves celebrated and included in these moments, the […]

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Netflix’s Bombay Begums depicts women in their rawest, purest and vulnerable best A 49-year-old woman confesses a horrifying chapter of her life, when she was in her 20s and was sexually abuse by her mentor in workplace, to her step daughter. Of all people, she finds comfort and solace in her 13-year-old daughter and opens […]

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While such an idea sounds like a monumental achievement towards eradication of gender biases in the film industry, it might have its downsides as well When Kangana Ranaut delivered a stellar performance in Vikas Bahl’s Queen (2014), it was touted as the year’s best. Similarly, when Alia Bhatt depicted a 20 year old spy in […]

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Bollywood’s tryst with Hollywood film remakes isn’t new but this time it’s official When the first look of Parineeti Chopra starrer The Girl on the Train was released recently, film fans were thrilled to see the unfolding of a promising murder mystery with strong female leads. Also, comparisons with its Hollywood counterpart of the same […]

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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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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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