Son of popular Bollywood action director Sham Kaushal, Vicky Kaushal tossed aside his engineering degree to join the family business of “not having a secure job”. After assisting Anurag Kashyap on Gangs Of Wasseypur, he made a quiet start with Vasan Bala’s short film Geek Out, before finding his way into Neeraj Ghaywan’s powerful little… Continue reading Throwback to our January cover star, Vicky Kaushal’s breakout movie
We played a little game of ‘Would You Rather’ to help you really get to know Bollywood’s new guard: Sayani Gupta (Margarita, With A Straw), Divya Menon (Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!), Vicky Kaushal and Shweta Tripathi (Masaan), Shashank Arora and Shivani Raghuvanshi (Titli) and Bhumi Pednekar (Dum Laga Ke Haisha). It’s one of their best performances.… Continue reading Get (weirdly) close with Bollywood’s new faces
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
When Richa Chadda takes on a role, any role, she owns the hell out of it. A starlet in a black marketeer’s dance troupe (Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, 2008), a spitfire matriarch in decline (Gangs Of Wasseypur, 2012) or a hard-talking don (Fukrey, 2013). So when she says she had to be asked not to… Continue reading Richa Chadda on Masaan
