Arré Recommends: Make Use of the Lockdown and Binge-Watch These Hidden Gems
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Arré Recommends: Make Use of the Lockdown and Binge-Watch These Hidden Gems

While going out and travelling to different places is in a future that is currently out of reach, the varied universes in movies, shows, books are still available to us. In the past few weeks, I’ve found it immensely calming to start a new show or watching a movie that I’d forgotten about, if only as a reminder that we can still enter a life outside our own rooms.
It’s Okay to Not Be Okay After Watching OK Computer
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It’s Okay to Not Be Okay After Watching OK Computer

Anand Gandhi’s OK Computer is an example of a series that had too many good ideas on the table at the start to let go of any one. Is it a sci-fi drama, a parody, a satire on the present, or a vanity project, masquerading as concept-level induction for dummies like myself? To me, it felt like everything and eventually nothing.
Bigg Boss Season 11: The Best is Here
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Bigg Boss Season 11: The Best is Here

I’ve been so emotionally invested in Bigg Boss Season 11 that I secretly wish they aired two episodes instead of one every day. And the best part about the show is undoubtedly the Shilpa Shinde-Vikas Gupta drama.
Tribhanga is that Film Which Makes You Call Your Mum and Say, “I Just Wanted to Hear Your Voice”
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Tribhanga is that Film Which Makes You Call Your Mum and Say, “I Just Wanted to Hear Your Voice”

Since watching Netflix’s Tribhanga, I’ve recommended it to several close women friends despite its agonising flaws, simply for its arresting central premise. So many of us have travelled the path the three women in the film are walking on. Confident in our abilities to make better, different, more authentic choices than the ones made by our own mothers and then realising we’re a lot more like our mothers than we ever intended to be.