The praise for Masaan – emphatic, celebrity-led, slightly drawn-out – had me worried. Frequent timeline appearances (we’ve also covered the film here, here and here), the critics’ award at Cannes, the oddly-long standing ovation and the grievance-ridden plot-line hinted at a socially relevant feature you were arm-twisted into liking. The peculiarities of small-town morality and the still-looming shadow… Continue reading Review: What makes Masaan unmissable
John Abraham fronts Johnnie Walker Blue Label’s #DateWithDad campaign. Not because he can drink you under the table – he’s a teetotaler; mostly because he really takes after his dad, we think. We caught up with the actor about his return to the big screen (after two whole years), and what he makes of the dad bod: … Continue reading John Abraham doesn’t buy into the dad bod phenomenon
How to single out just one detail to be most excited about? First of all, the book—a best-seller written by French author Romain Puertolas and with the irresistible title of The Extraordinary Journey Of The Fakir Who Got Trapped In An Ikea Wardrobe. Then there’s the movie—an adaptation to be written and directed by comic-book… Continue reading Marjane Satrapi to direct Dhanush?
Last July when Nasheed Qamar Faruqi started a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for her short film Bubbles, she didn’t imagine it would be screened at the 68th Cannes Film Festival, or even get made. “I got support from places like Austin, Lahore, we also have amazingly generous friends and backers from India, and wonderfully enough my… Continue reading Name to know: Nasheed Qamar Faruqi
Her 2012 debut, Vicky Donor, earned Chaturvedi early commercial success, every major writing award that year, and a strong bout of impostor syndrome. “Many offers came my way, but I didn’t touch my laptop for a very long time,” says the 40-year-old, who wrote her first screenplay while working a full-time advertising job and being… Continue reading Juhi Chaturvedi on Piku
Amit Gupta, writer and director, winner of the Royal Court Theatre Young Writers’ Competition for his play Touch, nominated for three BAFTAs for his first feature Resistance, wants everyone to know that he is a lifelong Amitabh Bachchan fan. So much so that at the age of five, he changed his name from Ravi to Amit.… Continue reading Name to know: Amit Gupta
