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Skater Girl movie review: Feel-good but half-cooked cinema that tiptoes around caste
Skater Girl draws on real-life stories of skateboarding entering rural India in the past decade. The film's warmer moments are overshadowed by its scattered narrative style and the half-truth it speaks in the matter of caste.
- Reporter 02
- 23 Aug, 2022
Sherni movie review: Vidya Balan buries her star persona in the lap of nature and gripping forest politics
Sherni delivers unrelenting yet noiseless excitement in addition to food for thought all the way up to its concluding minutes.
- Reporter 02
- 23 Aug, 2022
Haseen Dillruba movie review: Illogical crime saga wrapped in a clichéd ode to violent, frenzied love
I recall feeling unnerved and enraged for months after watching Tere Naam and Raanjhanaa. Haseen Dillruba is too thin and flat to sustain even anger.
- Reporter 02
- 23 Aug, 2022
FirstAct: Watch MD Pallavi's Salt, a play about ramifications of poverty in a pandemic
In MD Pallavi's 'Salt', a woman and her daughters walk the hard line between hunger and dignity.
- Reporter 02
- 23 Aug, 2022
Mehfil-e-Sahir | Celebrating 100 years of Sahir Ludhianvi: Mayur Puri reads 'Sar Jo Tera Chakraye'
For his birth centennial, we're presenting Sahir Ludhianvi's words in the voice of contemporary lyricists. Here, Mayur Puri discusses how Ludhianvi penned a very 'of-the-streets' song with 'Sar Jo Tera Chakraye',
- Reporter 02
- 23 Aug, 2022
Mehfil-e-Sahir | Celebrating 100 years of Sahir Ludhianvi: Raj Shekhar reads 'Man Re Tu Kahe Na Dheer Dhare'
For his birth centennial, we're presenting Sahir Ludhianvi's words in the voice of contemporary lyricists. Here.
- Reporter 03
- 23 Aug, 2022
Mehfil-e-Sahir | Celebrating 100 years of Sahir Ludhianvi: Hussain Haidry reads 'Main To Kuch Bhi Nahin'
For his birth centennial, we're presenting Sahir Ludhianvi's words in the voice of contemporary lyricists. Here, Hussan Haidry discusses why 'Main To Kuch Bhi Nahin' is a rare exception in the poet-lyricist's oeuvre.
- Reporter 02
- 23 Aug, 2022
Mehfil-e-Sahir | Celebrating 100 years of Sahir Ludhianvi: Shellee reads 'Jinhen Naaz Hai Hind Par'
For his birth centennial, we're presenting Sahir Ludhianvi's words in the voice of contemporary lyricists. Here, Shellee discusses how SD Burman and Ludhianvi's stellar combination made the Pyaasa soundtrack immortal in every respect.
- Reporter 02
- 23 Aug, 2022
Mehfil-e-Sahir | Celebrating 100 years of Sahir Ludhianvi: Irshad Kamil reads 'Main Zindagi Ka Saath Nibhata Chala Gaya'
For his birth centennial, we're presenting Sahir Ludhianvi's words in the voice of contemporary lyricists. Here, Irshad Kamil discusses how Ludhianvi translates profound philosophical emotions into simple everyday words, in this song from Hum Dono.
- Reporter 02
- 23 Aug, 2022
Mehfil-e-Sahir | Celebrating 100 years of Sahir Ludhianvi: Kausar Munir reads 'Yeh Ishq Ishq Hai'
For his birth centennial, we're presenting Sahir Ludhianvi's words in the voice of contemporary lyricists. Here, Kausar Munir discusses how every poetry lover must internalise this song in order to learn and appreciate the art and craft behind it.
- Reporter 03
- 23 Aug, 2022