Heart And Soul: Chris Whitaker’s We Begin At The End has been listed among the best thrillers of 2020, but to label it a thriller is to do it an…

The Great Indian Family: If there’s one thing Seema Pahwa’s debut directorial, Ram Prasad Ki Tehrvi, does really well, it is evoking a strong sense of nostalgia among those whose…

Today, top actresses post photos on themselves in bikinis on social media. But there was a time when an actress who showed skin was a vamp or a sex symbol.…

The original Coolie No. 1 (1995), a remake of Santhana Bharathi’s Tamil film Chinna Mapillai (1993), was hardly a masterpiece of comedy that a filmmaker would want to remake. Back…

Plum Pudding: When things look grim outside (a pandemic will invariably cause a few lows), a Janet Evanovich book is just the right pick-me-up. The bestselling author has created one…

Stumbled upon a biopic—unauthorized though it was—of J.K.Rowling, who is undoubtedly a publishing sensation, the likes of which appears on the horizon like a rare comet maybe once in a…

December 8 is the birthday of Dharmendra and Sharmila Tagore– here’s looking at a gem of a film starring the two. The Mumbai film industry does Hrishikesh Mukherjee a great…

During the ongoing pandemic, problems of the elderly came into sharper focus. In modern society, ageing is not a gentle easing into retirement and a peaceful rocking chair existence, surrounded…

Cinderella Of Mumbai: Some years ago, a married film star was accused of raping his domestic help; when he claimed it was consensual, the response to it was worse—could he…

A young woman is being constantly stalked online and fears the chime of a message on her phone or laptop; the man eventually reaches her home, and leaves a package…