I loved the nightly power outages in India which was a fairly regular occurrence in the 1990s. The darkness would bring life to a standstill. No TV, no cooking, no studying, no reading newspapers. Every family member felt secure in the darkness, in a strange sort of way, to say what they really felt. Marathi film Highway ...
Think offbeat and few names come to mind. In his nearly two decades in the Hindi film industry, Vinay Pathak has experimented and entertained in a miscellany of roles, from Khosla ka Ghosla to Dasvidaniya, from Bheja Fry to Gour Hari Dastaan, each uniquely different from the other. Dabbling in different genres, he didn’t make the safest of choices, ...
Fate brings together strangers Shiv Kumar (Naseeruddin Shah) and Tara Deshpande (Kalki Koechlin) when their respective spouses end up in the same hospital. Shiv and Tara are oblivion to what life has in store but learn to embrace hope and wait. Endlessly! Despite the dark premise, the film is sprinkled with generous doses of humour ...
Dipankar Sarkar
