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Masaba Masaba Exposes the Dark Side of Girlbossing
Though Masaba Masaba looks stylised and elite, it also captures the dark, often underexplored and unsexy side of Girlbosses.
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Why Atrangi Re’s view of mental health made me furious
Filmmakers these days want to espouse social issues and stigmas but if Atrangi Re’s treatment of mental health is anything to go by, these issues would be better left to those who know a thing or two about it.
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Milind Soman and Subtle Art of Male Elegance
Almost three decades apart, Soman plays the prize with pride, and embodies the kind of masculinity, both on screen and off it, that is rare to see.
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The Oddly Empowering Nature of Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives
The reality show can be cringe at times, but it is also oddly empowering in the sense that these women would not come to our screens if not sought out for who they are, rather than what they could have been.
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Vikram Vedha Review: Wholesomely Entertaining
Saif Ali Khan brings grace to the role of Vikram but it is the charisma of Hrithik Roshan’s Vedha that delights in this mass entertainer shouldered by a terrific script.
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Here is why the Popularity of Ali Sethi’s Pasoori Matters
Ali Sethi’s Pasoori has become a social media sensation, so much so it inspired The New Yorker to frame him as some sort of a messiah uniting Indians and Pakistanis through art. While Sethi is by no stretch of the imagination the greatest or the first artist to be revered on both sides of the border, his rise through the latest chapter of cold politics on either side of the border, is important.
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The Superlative Brilliance of Shefali Shah
Words probably won’t do justice to just how harrowingly brilliant Shefali Shah is in the second season of Delhi Crime. It’s humbling to be in presence of such precocious talent, that even our faculties to fully appreciate and preserve it are beginning to feel suspect.
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Ranveer Singh is Changing the Rules of Engagement
Singh is known for making bold choices, but the fact that a man who is often inarticulate and carries a messy energy, the decision to bare it all opens a door for expression where none presumably existed.
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Notes from a Screening of The Kashmir Files
I knew I was in for a unique experience when I chose to watch The Kashmir Files, but it was the absurdly regular and occasionally awkward events outside the film that made it, in certain ways, a special experience.
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Runway 34 Review: Doesn’t Land as Well as it Could Have
Ajay Devgn stars and directs this latest film about a miraculous plane landing. But what is a good premise to begin with is eventually wasted in this caricaturist portrayal of a near accident and the intrigue surrounding it.