He’s a strange animal. Brawny, brusque and burning, he seethes with unrequited love for his father. Singed by maniacal adoration for an uncaring, absent paterfamilias, he externalises his hurt and anger. He is protective of his sisters and is determined to save them from predatory eyes and groping hands. He wields an automatic like a ...
He’s a strange animal. Brawny, brusque and burning, he seethes with unrequited love for his ...
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Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. – Corrie ten Boom. Udgam, the origin, the source. When you start to lose yourself, you embark on a journey to the source to rediscover your moorings. And when you are dealing with the onset of dementia, the journey to the origin is ...
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The Banshees of Inisherin is a tough, challenging film to watch. Its pace is mellow and landscape stark. Set in an imaginary island off the coast of Ireland during the last phase of the Irish Civil War in 1923, it’s an intense study of alienation and existential angst. It has shades of a black comedy but ...
The Banshees of Inisherin is a tough, challenging film to watch. Its pace is mellow and ...
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From Homeland To Succession, these are the best Hotstar TV shows worth your time. It’s probably not an overstatement to say that OTT platforms are having a moment right now. Once seen on the margins of the film and television industry, they have now fully arrived. One may even say that they are poised to ...
From Homeland To Succession, these are the best Hotstar TV shows worth your time. It’s ...
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There are dramas and dramas, and then there are some. That fire the night sky like a rocket and traverse new worlds, blazing a trail and igniting the universe with the song of the unheralded and the daring of the audacious. At last, here’s an Indian show with stellar production values, an astute script and ...
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‘When my father died, all I ever wanted to do was protect my mother. And what kind of man would I be if I didn’t protect my mother?’ This is how The Power of the Dog begins and you almost miss its import, till… At the outset, let it be said: This slow burn is a ...
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An outstanding recreation of one man’s fight to reclaim his country, Sardar Udham is aesthetically shot and executed with almost perfection without a false note by Shoojit Sircar. ‘What were you doing when you were 23’? Think about it. Men who fought for India’s freedom were not men of straw. They were men of steel. ...
An outstanding recreation of one man’s fight to reclaim his country, Sardar Udham is aesthetically ...
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What a delightful film Shaadisthan turns out to be, a breath of fresh air on the road from Mumbai to Ajmer! It doesn’t resort to cliches or sport a motley crowd of actors nor tries too hard about women empowerment. It’s a breeze! Shaadisthan doesn’t preach (mostly), is unpretentious and relatable, and all the actors ...
What a delightful film Shaadisthan turns out to be, a breath of fresh air on ...
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Your favourite streaming devices let you in to the best of content in the comfort of your living rooms. While there’s a lot of great international content, good Indian TV shows/series are few and far between. We get you the 7 best Indian TV shows on Netflix streaming right now: 1. She (2020) Imtiaz ...
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It’s the staccato, droning, frenzied, draining crushing, grinding, peeling, chopping, washing, mopping, dusting, and at night, the abuse that gets to you. As a man, one slowly, almost seditiously, feels repulsed by what one sees. But one only needs to look into the mirror! In a society grossly steeped in patriarchy and misogyny, this is ...
It’s the staccato, droning, frenzied, draining crushing, grinding, peeling, chopping, washing, mopping, dusting, and at ...
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“When, in spite of all the good fortune that had come his way, he wasn’t happy, it was because he had not wanted to be happy in the general sense of the word.” Between 1898 and 1904, a Danish realist writer, Henrik Pontoppidan, published an eight-volume novel, Lykke-Per, which was later translated into English as ...
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‘My Love From The Star’ may be fantastical but one can’t help falling in love with the pulsating hearts and predicaments of a couple trying to unite across many, many rivers of time. “What’s the point of having super powers? He always passes out after a kiss.” Trust South Koreans to come up with a ...
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In 1939, in Sutton Hoo in rural Suffolk, a widowed landowner, Edith Pretty, invited an excavator, a self-taught archaeologist and writer of many books on the subject, to dig burial mounds on her estate. She formed an unlikely friendship with him based on respect for his craft. Basil Brown was a simple, unsung, unheroic man ...
In 1939, in Sutton Hoo in rural Suffolk, a widowed landowner, Edith Pretty, invited an ...
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‘Risk hai to ishk hai.’ In the beginning was the Word, and so it goes…I am tempted to go into an hyperbolic overdrive but suffice to say that this miniseries is possibly one of the best OTT series made in India. Scam 1992 is a story of a fallen star, a meteor who tried to ...
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This is such a powerful and evocative title for a movie. It conjures up disturbing images. A woman is a whole, a woman is a sum total of all her pieces; she is a life giver, she can be a destroyer of many worlds; she breathes and soars and she can fold her wings and ...
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