Badla. From the final scenes of Mirzapur's first season, till the closing shot of its latest one, vengeance remains central. And the form it espouses is one wholly characterised by brutal violence. Read More
The three main characters set out to be heroes in the realm of art, but all that comes across is their hypocrisy. This film satirizes the liberal hero trope with a meta takedown of the industry it situates itself in. Read More
While there is an illusion of granting agency to the women in contemporary Bollywood noir, little is done to explore the complexities and individual personalities of the characters. Read More
Unlike Draupadi and her five husbands, Mirabai’s erotic poetry and Kerala’s strong-willed Sita, Indian cinema and specifically Bollywood’s women have been failed for years Read More
On the 1st of August, 2020, the Ministry of Defence wrote to Central Board of Fil m Certification stating that all web series on OTT platforms need to get a no objection certificate from the MoD on content depicting the Armed forces. Read More
A show that makes Classical Music seem both impossibly difficult to master, and as easy as chopping vegetables Read More
Animators, unlike other conventional filmmakers, are trained less to be thinkers but to become dreamers, idealists and spiritualists, more than anything else. They don’t care much about reality or society or politics Read More
For the past three years, discussions around nepotism in the film industry... Read More
When comedians are at their very best, it seems like they are conducting a crowd – every minute action evokes a response, sends the audience down one line of thought only to snap them back into another, deviously sneaking out a laugh. Read More
Through a look at three immensely popular mainstream Bollywood films that have attempted to have conversations around cast (Lagaan, Swades, Article 15), we try to highlight the lack of attention paid towards casteism in Urban India by the Indian film industry. Read More
Rising up in clamorous applause after a show at Ranga Shankara, Jagriti Theatre, or any of the numerous performance spaces scattered across Bangalore seems like a thing of the distant past. Read More
There’s a platitude that’s associated with this city, one that’s constantly repeated by the Bombay defenders: Mumbai is a city, but Bombay is an emotion. I’ve often felt that this sentence doesn’t come close to the true representation of the city - so I turned to contemporary television shows to help me distinguish and make my choice. Read More
