The Girl Who Came To Dinner: No matter how liberal a family may be, when the possibility of a son or daughter choosing a partner from outside the community comes…

The Hakim Of Hoshiarpur Rating: ** There are ads hidden in the newspapers, and pamphlets plastered on walls—so-called ‘experts’ promising to solve all sexual problems. But people use weird euphemisms…

Stardust In Her Eyes: Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love (2006) was turned into a movie starring Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem, so the writer took a backseat. Based on the…

A Witless Comedy : Rating: *i/2 The kind of cinema Rohit Jugraj’s Arjun Patiala attempts to spoof–the ‘scriptless’ formula Bollywood caper comedy movie– is so ridiculous anyway, that the joke…

Batty Bobby: Rating: Three stars In Hindi cinema, “paagal” means characters dressed in tatters, laughing hysterically, so in a sense, Judgementall Hai Kya is different, in that it tackles the complexities of…

Foggy Memories: Kamlesh Mota’s new Gujarati play, Dhummas (Fog), written by Anshumali Ruparel, is described as “an emotional thriller”  which must be a term coined for Gujarati theatre, like “social comedy,” but…

Guns And Poses: Rating: * 1/2 Family Of Thakurganj is one of those films that collects good actors who can speak like UP-wallas, gets them to Lucknow, and hopes a script…

Chronicle Of A Death: Laila Lalami’s The Other Americans is written with an understated sense of the dramatic—a sudden death and the impact on people around, opens up like one of those toys…

The issue of sexual harassment in not confined to North India, but going by news reports coming out regularly, it is not for nothing that Delhi is known as the…

Teacher’s Pets: **1/2 The key line in Super 30, repeated often, is that the time when only a king’s son could become king has passed, now only the deserving gets…