Token Feminism: Rating: 2 & 1/2 stars As with the first film in 2014, the problem begins with the title. A woman who makes a place for herself in a…

The Jaipur Theatre Festival was established in 2001 by 3m Dot Bands Theatre Family, and renamed Jaipur Rang Mahostava or Jairangam in 2012. Thanks to the commitment of Festival Director…

  As Divya Jagdale gets set to perform her one-woman play, revisiting an interview with her: When Divya Jagdale moved to Mumbai, it was with a secret dream to become an actress, which…

Spare The Kids: The world seems to getting crazier by the day, so any outlandish scenario a writer comes up with, can be believed.  After the lyrical novella, Elevation, Stephen…

As the horrific rape-murder of Priyanka Reddy causes country-wide outrage, baffled attempts to understand what turns young men into savages and knee-jerk ideas about women’s safety come up, which are…

Marriage Story: Rating: 2/12 stars: There are two ways of watching Pati Patni Aur Woh, either ignore the sexism, and enjoy the one liners that fly thick and fast– because…

Battle Ready: Rating: Three stars: It takes a certain amount of bravado to attempt a huge historical that does not have any obvious audience-pleasing hooks. Ashutosh Gowariker’s film, tells the…

Vijay Kenkre grew up in a home, surrounded by theatre as his parents Damu and Lalita Kenkre and aunt Sudha Karmarkar were stalwarts of Marathi theatre. “Which is why,” he says, “I decided I…

Suspense Is The Key Alfred Hitchcock made Frederick Knott’s stage play Dial M For Murder immortal by directing a film based on it (in 1954).  Vijay Kenkre has directed a Marathi stage version called A Perfect Murder…

The Evil Within: April Satya Koushik has written and directed two plays based on mythology before – Chakravyuh and Draupadi—and his strength is clearly in his writing.  Raavan Ki Ramayan is written in verse, in the kind…