The Seductive Villainy of Ranveer Singh
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The Seductive Villainy of Ranveer Singh

Ranveer and his complete disregard for decorum when he’s talking about fucking or kissing on screen makes the rest of the Bollywood brigade look like a bunch of sanctimonious pricks. “I fucked around a lot until I was 26,” he declared to a world in which Salman Khan is an eternal virgin.
Shikara Review: An Incomplete Narrative on the Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits
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Shikara Review: An Incomplete Narrative on the Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits

In Shikara, Vidhu Vinod Chopra chooses to look at the Kashmiri Pandit exodus in isolation and not in relation with the continuous othering of the state by the governments of India and their armed forces. In that sense, not only does the film come across as visibly apolitical but also an incomplete narrative where quite a few pieces of the puzzle are missing.
Madhuri Dixit, the Woman of Middle-Class Dreams, and My Papa’s First Crush
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Madhuri Dixit, the Woman of Middle-Class Dreams, and My Papa’s First Crush

I have grown up on stories about my father’s not-so-secret childhood crush on Madhuri Dixit from the time when they were neighbours in Mumbai. As a child with a congenital heart condition, Papa had spent a large part of his childhood as the one-boy audience for her daily kathak practices. She didn’t know it, but Madhuri Dixit was making life a little bit bearable for an angry teenager.
Kaamyaab Review: Sanjay Mishra is Phenomenal in this Flawless Movie About the Movies
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Kaamyaab Review: Sanjay Mishra is Phenomenal in this Flawless Movie About the Movies

Hardik Mehta’s Kamyaab is filmmaking at its very best: an affecting acknowledgement of the innumerable artists in Bollywood, whose talent is constrained by an industry that treats them as disposable goods despite their indispensability. It’s also a boisterous love-letter to Sanjay Mishra, an actor who has never demanded the spotlight even when he deserved it.