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‘Raees’ Review: SRK Does SRK, Twitter Sings Praise
Anticipation for Shah Rukh Khan’s “Raees” had been building up steadily ever since the release of the first teaser in July 2015, and exploded with the release of the official trailer late last year....
View ArticleHow ‘La La Land’ Shows Love In A Light We Have Rarely Seen Before
SPOILER ALERT Yes, this is yet another article about the film which is on a spree at the Golden Globes this year. Let me warn you that it is going to be highly biased and perhaps will also let out a...
View ArticleHow An Outsider (Anurag Kashyap) Broke Into Bollywood
We, as a country, are so irrevocably adamant, where notions of belongingness and cultural well-being are considered, that anything that even minutely tries to disrupt or question our stagnated thought...
View ArticleKaabil Review: Love Beyond Ability
Kaabil is an exceptional love story of two people with a visual impairment. Two independent singles accustomed to living with their disability and reluctant to get married. They have accepted that...
View Articleअरसे बाद किसी मुस्लिम प्रोटैग्निस्ट को दिखाता है रईस
गुजरात के शराब माफिया अब्दुल लतीफ़ से प्रेरित फिल्म ‘रईस’ हाल के दिनों की सबसे प्रतीक्षित फ़िल्मों में से एक है। शाहरूख खान की पॉपुलर छवि ने इसे और भी रुचिकर बना दिया है। अरसे बाद अपनी ही एक बॉक्स आफिस...
View ArticleSocial Skills, And Why They Should Be A Priority In Your Life
‘Social skills’ are the ‘foundation’ of every single ‘relationship’ that you have in your life – it pertains to your ‘friends’, ‘family’, your ‘boss’, ‘coworkers’, ‘acquaintances’ and ‘everyone in...
View Articleरईस क्यूं देखें- क्योंकि ऐसी 56 हज़ार फिल्में पहले भी देख चुके हैं
अगर आप पिछले दस सालों की भोजपुरी फिल्में देखें तो एक जैसी ही नज़र आएंगी। जैसे भोजपुरी फिल्म का नायक कोई ‘देहाती मूर्ख’ जैसा होगा, आइटम साँग गाएगा, शहरी हो जाएगा, हीरोइन खुश हो जाएगी वगैरह वगैरह। ऐसे ही...
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Bhansali’s Manhandling Shows How Little It Takes For Indians To Turn...
Nationalism, religion, casteism: The more you focus on one thing, the more everything else gets blurred. Very much like his movies, seldom does Ram Gopal Varma succeed in making a fair point. Owing to...
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How An Artist Has Used The Canvas To Break Stereotypes Around LGBTQ Indians
Way back in 2006, while waiting at the Chennai Central railway station, I noticed a man getting up from his seat as a lady sat down next to him. The lady, a transgender woman, seemed visibly upset at...
View Article‘Kaabil’ Could’ve Been Path-Breaking But Remained A Stereotypical Revenge...
Sanjay Gupta’s 2017 film “Kaabil”, a Hrithik Roshan and Yami Gautam starrer, is a story of love, separation and revenge. A pretty common Bollywood plot, right? But, this one is different because the...
View ArticleScaling Your Startup To Multi-Millions: How These 4 Entrepreneurs Did It
Entrepreneurship is a long, laborious road with the risk of failure stalking you at every turn. But sticking it out on this road can often lead to rewards and personal satisfaction that make all the...
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Nucleya: The Making Of India’s Biggest Brand In Electronic Music
By Diya Gupta: It’s not much of a stretch to say that most Indian electronic music is played either at ‘EDM’ events and festivals like Supersonic and Sunburn or on the flipside, in the sort of...
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Ikonika On Hyperdub, Dubstep And Supporting Local Talent
By Diya Gupta: In an interview with Alex Macpherson at Guardian in 2010 – a little under two years after she released acclaimed debut 12″, “Please/Simulacrum” – Ikonika protests her skewed depiction in...
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मार्च में ‘आलम आरा’से ‘अनारकली ऑफ आरा’तक पहुंच जाएगा बॉलीवुड
‘आरा जिला घर बा त कौन बात के डर बा’ बचपन से सुनते आए हैं, लेकिन आरा में कोई अनारकली भी रहती है इस बात से पूरा बचपन अंजान निकल गया। अविनाश दास अपनी फिल्म में ढूंढ लाए हैं आरा से अनारकली को। अविनाश की...
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How We Feed Our Children Gender Stereotypes Through Stories
Being the bibliophile that I was from the beginning, my favourite activity would always involve curling up in bed with a book. I grew up in a virtual world filled with dark woods, enchanting castles,...
View ArticleWhat Is The Future Of The Doordarshan Network In India?
Living in a democratic society as an author and a common person is like trying to seek an answer the difference between a channel like DD National and various privately owned channels. We must first...
View ArticleKashmir Or Bastar, Women Always Suffer The Most In Conflict Zones
By Aishik Purkait and Neelofar Jokhun: For all the alarm and outrage that conservative leaders have ignited lately with regard to actions perceived as attacks on women rights and freedom, there has...
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Dear Karni Sena, Creativity Raises A Point, Your Violence Doesn’t
The year is 2017, India has celebrated 100 years of Bollywood but even after 100 years is the industry still as good as it should be? There are several important questions that need to be answered, the...
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Karni Sena, You Need To Get Your Facts Right!
Film-making is rightly considered as one of the profession that allow people the widest creative ability. A director puts their creativity to use in an attempt to create a world of his own. A...
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Do Video Games Influence The Morality Of The Player
Due to its relatively nascent appearance as a medium, games have not received much analysis from the humanities. Yet, gaming as a medium is exceptionally powerful, due to the constant interaction...
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