The nightmare has subsided and the country I call home can exhale for the first time in four long, emotionally and mentally taxing years. As many have punnily put it, it’s the “the end of an error”. That being said, we should… Continue Reading
Indian media outlets are a thorn on everyone’s side and in 2020, they were especially problematic. From aiding and abetting the disgusting witch hunts of innocent actors (Rhea Chakraboty) to fanning the flames of hate towards Bollywood by giving bottom-feeding… Continue Reading
Making fun of Netflix India is like shooting fish in a barrel. The controversy-ridden Indian division of the streaming platform has fumbled more times than arguably any of their rivals. As such, they are reportedly the least successful streaming platform in… Continue Reading
Avant-garde auteur, Spike Jonze, the man who directed arguably the greatest two meta films Adaptation and Being John Malkovich, immediately came to mind as I was watching the trailer to Netflix’s AK vs AK. The reason being is that like those films,… Continue Reading
Owing to its original, charming set-up of a cute kid abandoned at home during the holidays who uses his street smarts to sustain himself and outwit home invaders (and Macaulay Culkin’s iconic, impossibly cute interpretation of Norwegian Expressionist, Edvard Munch’s The Scream) Millennials hold the… Continue Reading
The minute the trailer to Netflix’s Real Housewives of Bombay (what I call the show on the basis that it’s a Transatlantic import of Andy Cohen’s hot mess) dropped, I messaged my Indian film critic friend, Rahul Desai, and told… Continue Reading
Back in November of 2019, before Ms. Rona crashed the party, I was invited by Saqib Saleem to the Crackdown look test. “(A look test is) basically to see how we look in different outfits or with each other in front… Continue Reading
Over the years, after reading one issue of Filmfare or Stardust after another, I realized that the Hindi film industry and the media publications who write about them, commonly use certain English words that are exclusively theirs and – sans a… Continue Reading
G-d knows I wanted to like this movie. For starters, it’s got Fahadh Faasil in it, whose been one of my favorite Indian actors the past couple years. It’s also India’s first pandemic-made film which upped its ante even more… Continue Reading
I confess that I rolled my eyes when I read that Bollywood was churning out another pseudo-inspiring chowdikar film and releasing it of course on Independence Day to capitalize on the streak of fervid nationalism coursing throughout India in this very,… Continue Reading