I used to dislike the society’s I-day celebrations that sounded and felt like a repeat of the one before, but for the two years during the pandemic that it went missing, I realised its importance.

A professor was forced to resign in Kolkata, for images she put up of herself on her social media. For some inane reason this non-imposition has been deemed her fault.

Laal Singh Chaddha is a faithful remake of Forrest Gump but besides a couple of heartfelt moments it imports no language or perspective of its own.

Amma and I were put together in a room by fate, but our relationship has bloomed because of trust and empathy. In fact, I can’t recall having a better friend in the truest sense of the word.

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Darlings take its sweet time to get going, but is shouldered by three impeccable performances that become the mainstay of a film happy to avoid genre clichés.

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Though Masaba Masaba looks stylised and elite, it also captures the dark, often underexplored and unsexy side of Girlbosses.

Good Luck Jerry is anchored by a career-best performance by Kapoor and though it isn’t deep or particularly inventive, the film is charming, entertaining and ludicrously simple, but in a good way.

Kumud Mishra plays empathetic characters with stunning elegance but in SonyLiv’s Dr Arora he also manages to add quiet angst to the portrayal of a heartbroken middle-aged man.

Singh is known for making bold choices, but the fact that a man who is often inarticulate and carries a messy energy, the decision to bare it all opens a door for expression where none presumably existed.

Shamshera doesn’t quite deliver on the anticipation of a touted pan-India film, but its politics and front-foot stance is refreshing, even if unevenly portrayed.

I’ve been wary of western attempts to frame subcontinental characters, but Ms Marvel is a welcome attempt at getting representation right.

Sushmita Sen’s relationship with Lalit Modi has been ambushed by a country that has no idea of the minefield, smart, successful women have to navigate when they step out to date.

Amruta Subhash has most recently been tackling middle-class disenchantment, but her range of work and portrayal of the many bittersweet agonies of life, makes her a truly unique artist.

Rajkummar Rao plays Vikram Jaisingh, a detective suffering from PTSD in a film that though weak in its plotting , is rescued by its performances, foremost of that by Rao.

Kyrgios is hard to like and maybe even harder to respect, but in a world full of perfectionists and achievers doling out career lessons, he stands for doing less or not doing it at all. It's something we can use being told from time to time.

Taika Waititi’s Thor Love and Thunder delivers like his previous film. With lots of humour, tenderness and a deeply affecting love story at its heart.

Koffee With Karan is back and given the three years we as a country have endured, god knows we’ve needed it

Almost three decades apart, Soman plays the prize with pride, and embodies the kind of masculinity, both on screen and off it, that is rare to see.

Rocketry: The Nambi Effect, thanks to a committed Madhavan is one of those films that you don’t really feel like criticising too much, and yet there’s little about it that outlasts its runtime.

The Steve-Dustin bromance is an unlikely alliance of opposites, that cut across the boundaries of type and age. It’s also the sweetest thing Stranger Things will leave us with.

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Is my queerness invalidated by my lack of the conventional experiences expected of queer folks? Do I need to perform my queerness, or is the fact of it enough? Did I need to look and behave a certain way to meet some standard of queerness? A year into coming out, I’ve somewhat found the answers to these questions.

Jugjugg Jeeyo is a trademark Dharma film. Loud and boisterous, with a fantastic ensemble cast – especially the returning Neetu Kapoor - it follows familiar tropes too, but surprisingly packs in the kind of emotional punch that most, old-wines-in-new-bottles lack.

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Masoom is fully committed to its mood and texture and more than the mystery, it is shouldered by the uncomfortable relationship between Boman Irani and his daughter, played by Samara Tijori.