Watching Shraddha Kapoor on big screen is a daunting task. She is that student of every class who funnily fails in that subject she’s over-enthusiastic about – which happens to be the acting department here. It doesn’t help that she has larger screen space in Baaghi as compared to Tiger Shroff’s leading lady in […]
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Nil Battey Sannata – A neat feel-good flick that celebrates motherhood and Mathematics!
Mother-daughter relationships are dicey. Equally complicated are father-son relationships and what is shared between siblings of same gender with significant age difference. These are cases where the elder parties weave hopes to replicate their unfulfilled dreams through the other. Well, Ashwiny Iyer Tiwary’s Nil Battey Sannata is not just about […]
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Hey Lara Dutta! Can we have more of you, please?
They say model-turned actors make lousy performers. I beg to differ. There are plenty of names to prove them wrong but one person I will always vouch for is Lara Dutta. Witty, spontaneous and intelligent, Lara Dutta didn’t quite get the kind of roles that merited her prowess. Today as […]
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Fan – The Shah Rukh Khan we have been waiting for!
FAN – A word that I completely relate to. Let me start with a first person account of something I observed. Well… There’s this female superstar whom I absolutely fan boy over. She is someone who played a significant role in shaping my ambitions and thought processes. I wouldn’t call myself […]
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10 Songs You Didn’t Know Were Composed by Sandesh Shandilya
Very often do we end up loving songs, but refuse to acknowledge the people behind them…. unless it happens to be an A R Rahman track. For me, Sandesh Shandilya‘s music always made an instant connect – like Khayyam, Anu Malik and Bombay Ravi’s music did to me. ‘My kind of music’ […]
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Ki & Ka – Quirky concept, tasteless film!
Gender appropriation – a much-discussed subject in modern times. Our society is gradually turning more tolerant to people with different beliefs and interests. We are at an evolving juncture where occupations, responsibilities or even behaviour patterns and thought processes cease to be gender-polarized. If we look back, our films almost had a […]
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‘Like Father Like Son’ review – a delicate film on parenting
Like Father Like Son (そして父になる), a Japanese drama film directed by Hirokazu Koreeda, juxtaposes a been-there-seen-that idea to an unusual yet believable premise. The film, just as the title suggests, is all about parenting. As far as the message is concerned, this is one film where the director safely relies […]