Filmmaker Ivan Ayr’s debut feature Soni tells the tale of two policewomen in Delhi who combat sexual harassment and gender stereotyping He draws inspiration from the works of renowned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi. “Panahi’s work delicately and most accurately reflects the everyday challenges people face, the restrictions imposed upon them and so on,” says Punjab-born […]

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The film First Man is both understated and nuanced, focusing on themes like mortality and loneliness Biopics of individuals known for their heroic achievements have always presented a dilemma for filmmakers. Do they whitewash the life of the subject to present an unrelenting hagiography—as Richard Attenborough did with Gandhi? Do they dig deeper to demystify […]

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Promoting Hichki in central Asia and beyond has been a unique experience for Rani Mukherji Rani Mukherji is on a five-city tour of China this week, promoting Hichki in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guang-zhou and Chengdu. This is her second film projecting a differently abled person, the first being Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Black (2005), where she […]

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SHAH RUKH’S MOST AWAITED FILM ZERO IS ALL SET TO HIT THE THEATRES Shah Rukh Khan’s upcoming Zero, to be launched in December, is already creating a buzz. Here, King Khan will be seen playing a dwarf. Directed by Anand L Rai, this film has Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma in pivotal roles. This film […]

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Tanushree Dutta speaks up against Nana Patekar, only to be greeted by silence from Bollywood — unsurprisingly On September 25, model and TV show host Padma Lakshmi wrote an article in The New York Times about her sexual assault as a child and as a teenager, and why she’d kept quiet about both incidents for […]

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Manmarziyaan tries to project ‘husband material’ as still a thing The feeling that Anurag Kashyap’s latest release, Manmarziyaan, leaves you with is déjà vu. Here we see an egotistical, sex-charged young romance à la Dev D; a manic pixie dream girl like in Tanu Weds Manu; a pair of synchronised dancers adding no direction to […]

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Yasmin and Fazal Kidwai’s documentary, A Sticky Wicket is about the girls living in the crime-infested Shahbad Dairy. They have defied societal norms and risen above all challenges to play cricket, which has given them hope “What do you do if you need to use the washroom after 11 at night?” asks the filmmaker. “I […]

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‘Being an actor in Bollywood is not easy,’ says Meera, who is related to both Priyanka and Parineeti and is soon to be seen in two Hindi films Model turned actor Meera Chopra is aiming to make it big in Bollywood. She stepped into the film industry in 2008, with the film ‘Anbe Aaruyire.’ After […]

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