A House for Mr Hashmi
When you are a Bollywood actor in Mumbai, doors open automatically — or at least so you would think. But as Shabana Azmi, Aamir Ali and now Emraan Hashmi have discovered, there are some doors which...
View ArticleFashion overdose: Do we need so many expensive clothes?
Whenever I have attended the Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai, it has always struck me as an event that is a little out of my league, but something that always gets the eyeballs. After all, isn’t fashion,...
View ArticleStriker: Sporadically good
Chandan Arora‘s “Striker” is one of those sleeper films — the ones which don’t have big stars or a big marketing budget, so that you don’t find hoardings at every street corner or its stars on every...
View ArticleCome, fall in love
I first encountered the 52-year-old Maratha Mandir movie theater while I was on one of my walks to explore Mumbai. Being new to the city, I do this often. It was just a casual walk down the lanes of...
View ArticleDhobi Ghat: A whole new hue
There’s a charming scene in Kiran Rao’s “Dhobi Ghat”, where Yasmin (Kriti Malhotra) is filming her maid-servant and her daughter for a video tape she’s making for her family back home. While the maid...
View ArticleShor in the City: Smart writing makes a smart movie
It’s OK not to have too many expectations from “Shor in the City” — I know I didn’t. After all, it doesn’t have a great star cast, there hasn’t been too much buzz around it and except for the music...
View ArticleThat Girl in Yellow Boots: Stark, unsettling cinema
Anurag Kashyap’s “That Girl in Yellow Boots” is an unsettling tale of a girl in search of the father who walked out on her as a child. Kashyap holds back very little in his narration of this tale,...
View ArticleMumbai’s Oktoberfest takes place under the stars
(The views expressed in this column are the author’s own and do not represent those of Thomson Reuters) It wasn’t Munich, but try telling that to the hundreds of Mumbaikers and expats (including some...
View ArticleResponsibility or censorship: why Bollywood should pick
(Any opinions expressed here are those of the author, and not necessarily those of Thomson Reuters Corp.) The mother and father of the 23-year-old Delhi gang-rape victim were cremating their...
View ArticleThe Attacks of 26/11: Revisiting the ghosts of Mumbai
(Any opinions expressed here are those of the author and not of Reuters) Just before the intermission in Ram Gopal Varma’s “The Attacks of 26/11“, a police constable stumbles around with a rifle,...
View ArticleKids rule the roost as Bollywood woos audiences
(Any opinions expressed here are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters) Mumbai resident Gopal Das doesn't usually go to the movies. It's the children who drag him and his wife to the cinema to...
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