Hindi films
The series, streaming on MX Player, is critical of majoritarian Hindutva politics but its preachiness blocks out any hope of nuance.
Hansal Mehta’s film, streaming on Amazon Prime Video, wants to cash in on Rajkummar Rao's success as a quirky, small-town protagonist but has no real vision.
In the cacophonic debris of remixes and reboots, Munir’s words are a throwback to a time when a song spoke of a character’s inner life. Here, the writer-lyricist breaks down some of her finest lines.
The book provides credence to rumours and uses conversations with ex-lovers to tell Parveen Babi’s story, primarily through the lens of mental illness.
You owe Bipasha Basu this.
Bollywood musicians rarely get the kind of credit actors and directors do. Often their music remains with us, even if the film tanks.
Dalits are often invisibilised in Hindi cinema, and even when they appear on screen, they are shown as powerless, wretched or dependent upon the patronage of the social elites.
They slog, like Sushant Singh Rajput did, in commercials, television serials, hoping they’d get a break in a big film some day.
Menon, who directed the Vidya Balan-starrer that recently released on Amazon Prime Video, unpacks the craft and creative decisions behind the film.