Cinema

India’s distant Oscar dream

India’s distant Oscar dream

India – the country which produces the largest film in the world – has not won a single Oscar in…

February 21, 2019

Not much more than a chick flick

The world of Four More Shots Please is far from real – expensive booze, perfect looks and casual flings take…

February 15, 2019

Bollywood and the art of propaganda

The timing of a recent slew of ‘political’ and ‘nationalist’ films before the elections is not a coincidence The scene…

February 7, 2019

Delhi Policewali

Netflix release Soni is an honest take on a woman in a position of power struggling to find space in…

January 24, 2019

Bitter taste of Koffee

Karan Johar’s show on Star World is finally getting flak for its disturbing attempts to tease out revelations about the…

January 24, 2019

Softening up biases

The documentary Son Rise by National Award winning filmmaker Vibha Bakshi tells the story of ordinary men from Haryana who…

January 24, 2019

‘My mantra is to let go’

For National Award winning filmmaker Arunaraje Patil, age is just a number and sky is the limit She was the…

January 17, 2019

Poster art redux

The dismissive attitude to film posters in this digital age has had its day, and their revival as an art…

January 14, 2019

Side effects of Netflix

Its an obsession, it’s a sensation, it’s taken over our lives —without any ad breaks A monotonous tone, wreaking havoc…

January 14, 2019

Decoding female desires

Bollywood’s depiction of female sexuality onscreen is getting bigger and better, but we still have a long way to go…

December 27, 2018