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
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
