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Satluj: a wound too deep
The bricks across homes are held together by a mixture of terror, blood, grit, and hopelessness. There’s nary a bright beam here. Cinematographer K.U. Mohanan’s filter is a tint of green, one that crawls, wounded, towards a formation of ugly, rotting wounds, not a salve. And that’s how director Honey Trehan (of the terrific Raat Akeli Hai series) chooses to narrate the true story of Jaswant Singh…
Pancham: Surprise!
(Reading time: 6 minutes) “Pancham!” I raise a quizzical brow while shooting a series of smoke rings that look like mini-Ferris wheels floating across the living room before settling carelessly into nothingness. I wonder if Asha’s pitch is slowly approaching the levels she trekked for Raat Akeli Hai in Jewel Thief. Minus the seductive layer of course. I also wonder if I’ve forgotten some…
Top Movies: 2025
(Reading time: 10 minutes) Ponman (Gold man) Wrapping his societal take at the dowry system—that’s gold-plated horror for girl’s families—in a madcap comedy of loan sharks and a recovery agent (Basil Joseph, terrific) embroiled in village and familial disputes, director Jothish Shankar spins an engaging tale that seems like one jolly ride for all its characters caught in a patriarchal web,…
Pancham: where has it all gone?
Reading time: 5 minutes The air crackles with the swirl of tributes that have grown from a gentle, mournful breeze in 1994—then, a painful stab, a reminder of mortality and its inevitable finality of passage, a personal vacuum of life’s betrayal that’ll always hang in devastating limbo—to now, a veritable cyclone of admiration from those who loved Rahul Dev Burman when he bustled with manic…
Pancham: the power of notes and silence
Reading time: 3 minutes The guitar strum and the main riffs immediately evoke a journey across a landscape that could be unforgiving and unrelenting. The horn blows in quietly, announcing the theme—of the movie and this piece—it’s a Western dressed in an Indian garb. The bongos and congas clip at a neat clop, a gentle hoofing through the land of dust and future and past violence. The drums add a…
The Family Man Season 3: dei, another day
Reading time: 7 minutes A South Indian meal near the Manipuri border? Knock me down with a Mallige idli, but thanks to Season 3 of The Family Man, I know about Moreh, said town which has a substantial Tamil population, their presence that the 1962 Burmese coup d’état shoveled in. That’s just one of many geo-political threads that the new season sews in its outing to the India of the Northeast…
Humans in the Loop: the ghost work that walks AI
Reading time: 4 minutes All forms of human behavior are shaped by the DNA we inherit, the experiences we absorb, and the implicit social cognition we can’t escape. Add to this the hundreds of generational behavioral patterns we’re all born with, and life begins to feel like a constant act of shadowboxing with invisible codes. Are we simply reacting to patterns preloaded at birth? Is our journey…
Pancham: a playful lilt for Janmashtami
Reading time: 4 minutes He picks up the flute, standing with a grace that only divinity can summon. His right thumb supports the instrument, while the other fingers curve magically over the keys. His left thumb covers the long flat key, the other fingers curling as if a serpent hypnotized by their owner and the instrument. His lips form the embouchure, pouting yet firm, smiling yet knowing, calm…
The Hunt—The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case: a taut thriller that still holds its secrets
Reading time: 5 minutes It must’ve been past midnight, May 21st, 1991. A few of us, heads buried in engineering textbooks inside makeshift classroom study halls, were contemplating a tea break. Just then, someone burst in: “Rajiv Gandhi has been assassinated!” The silence that followed was only a fraction of the shock that rippled across India. The next day’s headlines fixated on his charred…
Pancham: when birthday wishes are left unsaid
Birthdays are like that. A strange Richter scale of emotions on the timeline of human life. Children hit high on the excitement spectrum, trip over themselves to be pampered, conditioned to the celebration of their arrival day by family and then, by extension of invites and gift-bearing responsibilities, friends. And then as the orbits around the sun increase in number, a self-pitying weariness…
F1 The Movie: generational gap in the pitt-stops
It’s a truism now that each generation wears two lenses: one they use to view themselves in the mirror and admire the redemption and the Phoenix-like rise amidst hardships and thankless non-breaks. (In this piece’s context, non-brakes would be mot juste.) The other, when they look down—literally—at the newer generations and see the imminent hubris that’s powered by brash entitlement and…
Crazxy: from mad maxx to sad saxx
The opening sequence of debutante director Girish Kohli (also writing) involves a bag, tony car, a swishy foldable phone, and Dr. Abhimanyu Sood (Sohum Shah). Little do you realize then that you’ll be spending the rest of the movie with these entities. hat’s not an ominous warning to stay away—it’s a heads-up that the madness is worth a ride. For, wrapped in a sheath of hat-tipping to Amitabh…
Raid 2: raid raid whine
If the opening moments of a movie set its tone and intent, Raid 2 lays out its key themes in bold bullet points. Ajay Devgn—reprising his role of Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer Amay Patnaik (from Raid)—loves his shades as much as his principles, wearing them at night, possibly to give his worn out team members the impression that he’s always on the qui vive while dozing off and dreaming…
Director Reema Kagti's heartwarming ode to dreams, friendship, and the magic of small-town cinema shines with humor, hope, and heartfelt performances.
September 5: breaking down the breaking news, tautly
A plume of disconcertment hangs over every scene in director Tim Fehlbaum’s newsroom true-story-thriller, September 5. That unease rises from a world churning with contradictions—right and wrong, right and left—blurring any clear sense of morality. It’s an indication of how our current minds are a mess, listening to echo chambers of discordant symphonies, a bracketing of beliefs that ensures we…
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Reading time: 6 minutes Merry Christmas Director Sriram Raghavan’s spatially acrobatic tale may land with a totter, but there’s no denying a sighful of pleasure at his take on nostalgia, Bombay, and murder. Employing Vijay Sethupathi’s amiable, self-deprecating act as a foil to Katrina Kaif’s poised fierceness and sensual vulnerability, the movie relies more on emotional heft than twisty…
Pancham: Exploring Success and Loneliness
Rahul Dev Burman knew how to straddle the spectrum of success and loneliness in his notes.
Reading time: 4 minutes If success is the party we all host at some point, the hangover is the inevitable low lying in wait, sneaky, insidious, inevitable, seemingly improbable, especially when life’s at a high point on the Ferris wheel. Especially when fame brings with it a magical appearance of friends, rushing out of the mist of obscurity into the photo frame. When life is good, offering…