Back with a bang

Ahead of the release of Netflix’s much-awaited Sex Education, let’s take a look at what makes this British comedy series a pathbreaking one   When Sex Education was first released, on Netflix in 2019, this British comedy was perceived – by its first look – as a story of horny teenagers trying to steer clear […]

Shades of Modern Love

Netflix anthology Feels Like Ishq has a fresh take on romance   What’s that one theme that sells like hot cake, every single time – in plays, movies, shows or any other medium? It’s love! Romance has been a genre that has been explored on-screen gazillion times. So much so, that whenever there’s a new […]

Revisiting Ray

The modern retelling of legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s short stories in Netflix’s Ray is lost in translation, but shines in parts There’s no two ways about it that it takes an immensely talented individual to create a masterpiece. But to deconstruct a “master’s piece” and present it to the audience in a different time period, […]

“I want to make timeless films…”

Hollywood filmmaker Naveen Chathapuram opens up about his debut feature The Last Victim Considering himself first and foremost a storyteller, Naveen Chathapuram never lost sight of his love for art, music and films that he developed as a child. However, he soon realized that in order to become a successful filmmaker, he needs an understanding […]

All hail the queen…

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 […]

An ode to womanhood

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 […]

Rohena Gera’s ‘Sir’ tells the tale of an unrequited love through the prism of class division

The film not only explores a forbidden relationship between a domestic help and her employer, but also puts forth a question: “Is love enough?” A lonely, affluent businessman finds comfort and solace in his live-in maid. And the maid, a widowed young woman, shares the same feeling towards her employer but is torn between the […]

Streams of conscious consumption

The way audience consumes content isn’t the same anymore amid the new normal The global pandemic might have been a bane for most, but for the OTT platforms – it’s definitely a boon! Just when India, like many other counties in the world, was getting acquainted with the culture of binge-watching,little did it know that […]