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The OG #FamJam: Why We Need to Bring Family TV Time Back

Family TV time was when we’d bond by making hapless attempts at answering KBC questions, laughing at each other’s awful guesses, and asking about each other’s day at school and office during commercials. But now, I can’t seem to remember the last time my family turned on the flatscreen in our living room.

Nihal Bambulkar April 6, 2016

Pop Culture

Parasite’s Oscar Win Is A Sign That You Should Watch These Five Bong Joon-ho Movies

There's no better time than now, when #Parasite's worldwide recognition has revealed an appetite for world cinema, to take a deep-dive into Bong Joon-ho’s filmography. Go rewatch Parasite in the theatres as many times as you’d like, but come back after and watch these five films that are a testament of a generational talent working at the absolute height of his powers.

Ronak Gupta April 6, 2016

Pop Culture

Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare Review: A Portrait of Two Ladies on Fire

Dolly Kitty Aur Chamakte Sitare sees Alankrita Shrivastava build on the whistle-worthy ideas that defined Lipstick Under My Burkha. Female desire and oppression are the fulcrums around which the plot churns here as well, but it’s a more reflective outing enriched by its two leads – Konkana Sen Sharma and Bhumi Pednekar.

Poulomi Das April 5, 2016

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Coronavirus Bingewatch: When Real Life Gets Apocalyptic, Westworld’s Sci-Fi Dystopia is Comforting

Those worried that Westworld had devolved into a stoned humanities student’s ramblings masquerading as a TV show, I’m happy to inform that era of the show has passed. So is it worth returning to Westworld? For fans, detractors, and even people quarantined because of the coronavirus, the answer is a resounding yes.

Dushyant Shekhawat April 3, 2016

Pop Culture

Altered Carbon Reminds Us of What Makes Us Human

On the surface, Altered Carbon, Netflix's latest cyberpunk dystopian drama is a technologically drunk science-fiction show but its heart lies in being an effective meditation on the cost of humanity.

Poulomi Das April 3, 2016

Pop Culture

Why Aparna – And Not Sima Taparia – is the Unlikely Heroine of Netflix’s Indian Matchmaking

Indian Matchmaking reinforces worrying instances of gender discrimination as “tradition” and features a matchmaker whose only expertise is in advising women to “compromise.” That’s why Aparna is the only person worth listening to on the show, a woman unperturbed by the need to come across as likeable.

Poulomi Das April 3, 2016

Pop Culture

Much Before Netflix’s Sacred Games, There was Powder

Like Sacred Games, Atul Sabharwal’s Powder revolved around a cop obsessed with nabbing a dreaded drug kingpin. It may not boast of the production values of a Netflix adaptation, but as a commentary on the pluralities of Mumbai, Powder was just as powerful.

Ajay Chacko April 2, 2016

Pop Culture

Jamtara Review: A Fascinating Netflix Drama that Evokes the Rottenness of the India We Don’t Read About

At a time when mob rule and goondaism seem rampant in the country, Jamtara, Netflix's latest Indian original, paints an effectual portrait of an India that we often look away from.

Manik Sharma April 2, 2016

People

There Really is No one Else like Amruta Subhash

Amruta Subhash has most recently been tackling middle-class disenchantment, but her range of work and portrayal of the many bittersweet agonies of life, makes her a truly unique artist.

Pradeep Menon March 31, 2016

Pop Culture

Adam Sandler, I Now Pronounce You… A Comic Genius

If you had a Venn diagram with two circles labelled “classy” and “massy”, the overlapping area would be marked “Adam Sandler”.

Dushyant Shekhawat March 31, 2016