What “To All The Boys: PS I Still Love You” Taught Me About Love, Rejection, and Going All In
Netflix romcom To All The Boys: PS I Still Love You feels untouched by the cynicism that has seeped into the app-dependent dating lives of…
Dear Bollywood, Enough With the Item Girls. Where Are the Item Boys?
Item girls shimmied their way into Bollywood back in the ’40s and there’s been no looking back ever since. Think Madhuri Dixit in “Choli Ke…
Omerta: Hansal Mehta’s Dramatised Wikipedia Entry on 21st-Century Terror
Hansal Mehta’s biopics are marked by a deep-dive into the minds of his central characters. And that is the greatest weakness of Omertà, a film…
Mo Salah – 1, Islamophobia – 0
As world leaders advocate stricter immigration policies and hostility toward Muslims around the globe rises, that one of the world’s most loved footballers should be…
How Spitfire, a Young Gully Rapper Made His Mark On India With Gully Boy’s “Asli Hip Hop”
The “Asli Hip Hop” hook from the Gully Boy that you’ve been tapping your foot to? It was created by Nitin Mishra, aka Spitfire, whose…
Shaadi Ke Side Effects: When a Maharashtrian Marries a Marwari
Maharashtrians are frugal, Marwaris are shaukeen. A Maharashtrian’s wedding budget is a Marwari’s lehenga budget. I married a Marwari and though our cultures take us…
Farewell Dear Mindy Project, The One-Woman Show Hollywood Needed
In The Mindy Project, Mindy Lahiri’s career and success is entirely of her making, mirroring its creator, Mindy Kaling’s, own life, where she been consistently…
What Indians Can Learn from Comeback King Conor McGregor
Most of us could’ve used a guy like Conor McGregor around us growing up, considering how naturally shitty most Indians are with comebacks and trash…
Knock Down the House Isn’t About Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alone. It’s a Roadmap for a Political System
There’s more to Netflix’s Knock Down the House than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her journey to becoming a Congresswoman. Instead, the documentary is a record of…
Coolie No. 1 is an Assembly of Bollywood’s Greatest Comics
Coolie No. 1 boasts of a comedy dream team with Johnny Lever, Paresh Rawal, Javed Jaffery, and Rajpal Yadav. Obviously, it’s a laugh riot.