A curated take on South Asian art, literature, life and news
A few years ago, Maanayata Dutt, Hindi film actor Sanjay Dutt’s wife, asked popular filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani to consider making a movie about the controversial star. Dutt’s life truly has[…]
Iconic filmy dialogues pepper the mundane minutiae of our everyday lives with some much-needed punch and melodrama. What would Bollywood be without these dialogues, timed so perfectly that the audience[…]
Since Karan Johar’s debut as a director almost twenty years ago, Dharma Productions has become synonymous with bringing glamour and polish to the world of Hindi cinema. Johar’s melodramatic, lavish[…]
If the perfect symmetry of the first few frames doesn’t have you screaming “SOMEBODY GIFTED ZOYA AKHTAR THE WES ANDERSON DISCOGRAPHY LAST BIRTHDAY!” immediately, Aamir Khan’s rich baritone of a[…]
Bombay Velvet has been in the news for a long time, and not for all the right reasons. Rumors ranging from actors feeling letdown, multiple re-shoots being scheduled, to the[…]
Inspired by James Ellroy’s Los Angeles-based crime fiction novels, Anurag Kashyap’s crime drama Bombay Velvet tells the story of street-fighter Johnny Balraj (Ranbir Kapoor) and aspiring jazz singer Rosie Noronha (Anushka Sharma).[…]
Whenever I happen to be forced to show off my laugh-tastic dance moves after being dragged onto the dance floor by one of my freakishly strong friends, I get ready[…]
I have been a devoted Akshay Kumar fan ever since he first captured my heart via “Chura Ke Dil Mera” in the 1994 hit Main Khiladi Tu Anari (MKTA). This action-comedy[…]
