Amazon unfriends outspoken actor

Swara Bhaskar is intelligent and doesn’t fit the pliant-flexible role that neo-liberalism assigns to women celebrities There is something freaky about the hysteria surrounding upcoming actress Swara Bhaskar’s utterances. The wrath directed at her is unforgiving, intolerant, and seeks to discipline. A young actress cannot cross lines without her career suffering, and certainly cannot use […]

No paeans to ‘jaan’

Film-makers seem to have fallen out of love with Mumbai, the city in which they live and work. No ode has been sung to ‘Bambai’ in the last two decades As home to Hindi film industry, Mumbai has hogged the space as backdrop of many films.The romanticisation of the city and various stereotypes that it […]

Real royal weddings

if wedding scenes in hindi films set the trends for a million weddings across the country, when the stars wed, their designers make sure they look like princes and princesses of the days of royalty  

NO SONGS FOR SUMMER

The Hindi film industry has produced very few songs for this season, compared to the other three seasons. Perhaps love is scorched by the tropical sun While literary scholars can argue what T S Eliot actually meant when he called April the cruellest month, it rings true for India. It’s not always about what April […]

TIGER CAGED

The conviction of Salman Khan in the blackbucks case comes as a surprising twist in the drama that is the top Bollywood actor’s life. The hero has been painted as a villain The tiger is still alive but now caged. Like his role in “Ek Tha Tiger” (2012) and its sequel “Tiger Zinda Hai” (2017), […]