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They Came, They ☺, They Conquered
Emojis are kicking the ass of mere words. Love, sex, swag, we can convey it all, with simply one character. Can our vocab get any richer?
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Book Club and the 50 Shades of Ageing
Book Club – starring Acting Avengers Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen, and, Mary Steenburgen — puts the limelight on the sex lives of older women, normalising their desires and insecurities.
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Jo Jeeta Wohi Timeless
Mansoor Khan’s second cinematic outing is not just a film. Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar is a lesson in filmmaking. In many ways, it is a lesson in life.
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To the Millennials Mocking Ramayan & Mahabharat… Here’s Why They Were Truly Epic
YouTube’s “pause-and-find-flaws” generation is calling out bloopers from Ramayan and Mahabharat. They’ll never know the extent to which these TV shows were, literally, epic. Back then, Doordarshan assumed the role of absentee grandparents; Sunday morning television was a proxy temple visit.
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It’s Not the Night King or Cersei, But Ambition That is Game of Thrones’ Greatest Threat
Season Eight’s fourth episode, “The Last of the Starks”, reveals that the greatest threat to humankind wasn’t external. Rather, we’re more than capable of tearing ourselves apart in our pursuit of power, even without the threat of an impending apocalypse.
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Jessica Jones and the Superhuman Power of Female Anger
Jessica Jones is an eloquent portrait of female rage that makes you glad for the anger. The women aren’t merely outraged about the abuse they’ve faced. They’re furious about a whole spectrum of systemic injustice of which sexism is only the tip.
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26 Years of The Shawshank Redemption: The Movie that Legitimised the Guy Cry Genre
The Shawshank Redemption made it okay for guys to cry, and spawned a change in modern-day cinema that helps encourage this. Even superhero films today don’t end with the guy saving the day and getting the girl, they end with tears and male fans endorsing their bawling as a thumbs up to the movie.
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The Many Comebacks of Govinda
Aa Gaya Hero is a two-hour-long trip back to Govinda’s favourite destination: The 1990s, when we couldn’t tell the difference between camp and humour.
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20 Years of K3G: The Most Bollywood Film Ever
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham hasn’t aged gracefully, but it remains a shining marker of what peak Bollywoodisms look like. Shrill, loud and emoted to within an inch of creative despair this is a film that is iconic for just how excessive it makes the art of filmmaking look. It’s 100 percent Bollywood with add-ons.
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Aadhaar Battle: The Backbenchers Win This Round
The government announced today that linking your Aadhaar card to your mobile phones or bank accounts would no longer be mandatory. Three cheers for the procrastinator, who deleted all Aadhaar-related messages on sight and ignored pretty severe warnings that their bank accounts would be frozen!