In Chennai, a dead man is celebrated more than ever in his life. His friends and relatives drink. They laugh, they cry. Some take leave to recover.

Is love even a person or is it just a time in life? The specificity of the timing of our great loves is the most definitive metric of whether it works long-term or not.

Although, none of the female characters in the second season of Sacred Games are killed off cheaply like Radhika Apte’s Anjali Mathur was last season, the new season can be accused of something worse: falling into the trap of mistaking the mere inclusion of female characters as doing justice to them.

"Paani chala jayega toh tissue se dhona padega?" It might well be a reality in the age of a severe water crisis. In A Parallel Universe reimagines this: It's 2030 and all the water has vanished off the face of the earth. How would Indians react to it?

I met Khayyam saab almost a decade ago for just a couple of hours. Yet, like most of his fans, I feel I have known him all my life. Khayyam saab, with his gentleness, reminded me of times when a lot of artists came together for a film and were happy to collaborate for the common cause – and that cause was music.

Mani Ratnam’s Dil Se.. shed a light on human rights violations and the government’s indifference to the state of affairs in India’s North East. It also remains one of the finest depictions of the all-consuming insanity of love, and leaves you with the idea that love is no less damaging than war.

Both Mindhunter and Sacred Games became jewels in Netflix’s streaming crown on the backs of their riveting first seasons. But while Mindhunter manages to recapture the brooding atmosphere that was its signature, Sacred Games’ well seems like it’s starting to run dry.

Have South Indians really earned the right to claim the moral high ground when it comes to sexism? For starters, comparing stats on women’s rights in developed states to the rural cowbelt, is like lauding India for having a stronger record on human rights than Saudi Arabia.

On Splitsvilla connections are made and broken based on the couple’s physical appearance – biggest biceps, smallest brain, etc.