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Listen to this article: A.R. Rahman has been trusted to do the heavy lifting in the climaxes of his recent films. The wailing vocals at the end of...
Listen to this article: In Gurvinder Singh’s Rehmat, no guest is turned away. Whether it’s an alleged militant, or an out-of-state traveller,...
Listen to this article: Few things help people bond more than being in the trenches through an extreme experience: travelling/living with someone over...
No genre in Hindi cinema has become fodder for memes as much as the Bollywood war film. The never-ending disclaimers profusely thanking the armed...
Near the end of Destin Daniel Cretton’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day, I was reminded of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 (in my eyes the best Spider-Man...
Eventually, Sharanya Rajgopal’s Musafir Cafe settles into the cosiness of a novel found in a railway station bookstall. Those unintimidating...
Is there a director working today who has been able to consistently match the crescendo of the last minutes of a Christopher Nolan film? Since Memento...
It’s mostly a good sign when audiences let out a collective sigh as the intermission lights pop up, indicating they’ve not only warmed up to a...
The title for Nachiket Samant’s film is at first perplexing. But then, once I saw what they were trying to do, I smirked. An English transliteration...
Listen to this article: This interview, first published on July 10, 2025, was republished on July 7, 2026, after the film was pulled from an OTT...
Nothing communicates the listlessness of Hindi cinema over the last six years better than the diffidence of Bollywood’s two flagship studios: Dharma...
Listen to this article: Christopher Storer’s The Bear has built a singular fan-base, since it arrived in 2022. The kitchen of a sandwich shop in...
Listen to this article: Not enough credit goes to female tennis players from the ‘70s and ‘80s for shaping the discourse in our world. Staunch...
Prosit Roy’s Raakh takes a big swing in its last episode. After tip-toeing around the crime where two teens—a brother and his sister—were...
In India, making a film/web series based on real events/people is an adventure sport. There’s no way it can criticise political powers without being...
Anurag Kashyap’s Bandar is set in a fascinating world. An out-of-work actor Samar Mehra (Bobby Deol), 50, a shadow of his ‘90s screen-self, has to...
Listen to this article: At the heart of Curry Barker’s Obsession lies a simple, contained but brilliant premise: what if your dreams come true; but...
Bishnu (Gaumaya Gurung) is a writer in her bones, which explains why we see her continuously grappling with the world. While those around Bishnu go...
Director Ashwini Iyer Tiwari has been making films for over a decade. And yet, nothing gives away her lack of assurance more than her choice of...
While watching Kartavya, one can spot a pattern in the films Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment (RCE) wants to champion. After Atul...
Before we discuss the joys of Kyle Balda’s The Sheep Detectives, we must dwell on the obstacles around it (and there are a few). First, that flat...
Listen to this article: Ritwik Pareek’s Dug Dug is quite the tease. In a gloriously meditative opening sequence, a visibly inebriated man steps out...
The world must be changing fast and beyond recognition if even Miranda Priestly can’t afford to be nonchalant anymore. Played by Meryl Streep in the...
Listen to this article: As someone who has been watching Bollywood biopics for the last decade, there should be little in Antoine Fuqua’s Michael...
I might have chanced upon a litmus test for long-form screenwriting. A majority of the shows span in the five-six hours region—they’re bound to...
Listen to this article: Few things infuriate me about Hindi film industry parlance more than a film being referred to as “high-concept”. It’s a...
In a way, it’s brilliant that actor Riz Ahmed delves into one of Hollywood’s (and Britain’s) most pressing cultural voids – Who will be the...
At one point, in Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s Project Hail Mary, someone asks if they know when a hug ends. “You just know,” comes the response...
Listen to this article: Talking about how disappointed one was by the Oscar ceremony, year after year, might be like beating a dead horse. We should...
Listen to this article: “Come get me. They’re shooting!” Long after seeing The Voice of Hind Rajab, the five-year-old’s voice still echoed in...
Listen to this article: “Come get me. They’re shooting!” Long after seeing The Voice of Hind Rajab, the five-year-old’s voice still echoed in...
When I watched the teaser for Anubhuti Kashyap’s Accused about a week ago, my first reaction was that of excitement. But almost reflexively, I...
Very little of Aashish Mall’s Shatak looks real. I’m not talking just historical authenticity here, or the conspicuous name-dropping of...
At one point in Anubhav Sinha’s Assi, a father (Manoj Pahwa) and his son (Abhishant Rana) are devouring a plate of chhole bhature. The father says,...
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