PM Narendra Modi Archives

PM Narendra Modi Review: The Most Lacklustre Endorsement of NaMo This Election Season

Biographical films, by design, are expected to remain true to facts. But PM Narendra Modi is bound by no such restrictions, mainly because director Omung Kumar hasn’t made a film. Instead he’s directed a 131-minute-long product placement of Narendra Modi.

Poulomi Das June 6, 2016

Columns

Rearview: Hardik Pandya, Rahul Gandhi, & Bipin Rawat are Just Shades on the Pantone Card of Misogyny

Is there really much of a difference between the comments made by Bipin Rawat, Rahul Gandhi, Shashi Tharoor, and Hardik Pandya? At this point they just seem like hues on the Pantone shade card of sexism and ingrained patriarchy.

Karanjeet Kaur May 1, 2016

Money Matters

Budget 2019: Is the Income Tax Slab Enough to Make Us Forget about Unemployment Rate?

The super-populist interim budget of 2019 had something for everyone – small farmers, the middle class, and retirees. Considering this is an election year, we expected nothing less than a budget to appease the masses. For once, the government has not disappointed.

Adhirath Sethi April 1, 2016

Bollywood

The Half-Yearly Report Card: Ranking the 10 Worst Female Characters in Bollywood

It’s 2019 and yet in some of the year’s biggest scripts, actresses continued to play second fiddle. Save for Gully Boy’s Safeena, most of them were devoid of a personality. In one of the highest grossers of the year, Kabir Singh, Preeti exists only to get exploited, and in Kesari, we still don’t know if Parineeti Chopra is a ghost or a memory.

Poulomi Das March 31, 2016

Bollywood

Why “PM Narendra Modi” Director Omung Kumar Believes He Has Made a Neutral, Apolitical Film

Omung Kumar B, the director of PM Narendra Modi, is a man of contradictions. He claims he is not “politically inclined” but endorses the Prime Minister by directing a biopic on him. He insists that he is a neutral filmmaker, because he did not meet the PM – only sought his permission.

Poulomi Das March 10, 2016

Bollywood

The Accidental Prime Minister Review: A Disappointing Launch for the BJP’s 2019 Campaign

Somewhere in his failure to make a good, authentic film on the 10 years of UPA, Vijay Gutte delivers a movie that resembles the UPA era – incoherent, helmed by corrupt people, and that familiar feeling of wondering when the fuck you’ll get done with this bullshit. If this is the launch of the BJP 2019 campaign, I am pretty disappointed.

Devaiah Bopanna March 2, 2016