Film & TV

Vogue India • 6th March 2025

After 20 years in Bollywood, Shahana Goswami is ready for lead roles

Anyone who’s watched Shahana Goswami on a screen cannot doubt her talent for wearing her characters like a second skin. After nearly 20 years of playing her part in ensemble casts, the actor is more than ready to lead

The Nod Magazine • 23rd January 2025

Murder, they wrote

Crime journalists are moonlighting as authors, researchers, screenwriters to help India’s leading production houses create the next big true-crime binge

Vogue India • 15th December 2024

In 2024, Indian cinema’s demure leading ladies entered their brat era

Internet culture has us convinced we have lived through a ‘brat’ summer and a ‘demure’ fall in 2024—but that also extended to Indian cinema

Vogue India • 8th September 2024

Bollywood movies are re-releasing in theatres by the dozen. Is it nostalgia or slim pickings?

Our nostalgia for old films might be about more than just returning to the comfort of a certain joyful, simpler time in our own lives

The Nod • 19th July 2024

R.I.P. ‘cougars’ and ‘MILFs’—Hollywood romance is growing up

A rom-com renaissance is taking shape, flipping the age gap relationship with older woman-younger man as leads

Vogue India • 30th May 2024

A timeline of how female friendships in Indian cinema went from “frenemy” to “sisterhood”

We trace the evolution of the “womance” in post-Independence Indian cinema through a few significant films per decade

The Nod • 17th May 2024

Why do we love watching shows about rich people?

Why the one-percenters of Succession to Bridgerton, Bling Empire to Super Rich in Korea have have occupied so much of our attention span

Moneycontrol • 30th December 2023

Year Ender 2023: From Past Lives to Kaathal, 23 best World Cinema films of 2023

Hidden gems 2023: Romcoms to biting satires to heartbreaking dramas, these films may not have made as much noise as others but deserve your attention nonetheless.

Moneycontrol • 10th December 2023

Book review | ‘MCU - The Reign of Marvel Studios’ review: The thrilling big business of superheroes

Through years of exhaustive research, three American pop culture journalists — Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales and Gavin Edwards — have produced what might be the definitive inside story on Marvel Studios.

Moneycontrol • 5th November 2023

Sly on Netflix: Inside the very masculine world of Sylvester Stallone

The new Netflix documentary Sly takes us deeper into the Stallone-verse. But why should you care?

Moneycontrol • 8th October 2023

Wes Anderson’s Netflix shorts to Zoya Akhtar’s The Archies: How the ensemble movie has evolved across the filmscape

From films where the story was the hero to all-star juggernauts, is the ensemble movie now key to box office success?

Moneycontrol • 6th October 2023

ChatGPT and dreams of electric sheep: A brief history of AI in film

Gareth Edwards's The Creator is the latest in a long line of films that explore humans versus AI tensions

Moneycontrol • 28th July 2023

Barbie is a feminist film: A peek into Greta Gerwig’s pitch for the Everywoman

The Barbie movie is much deeper and nuanced than the pink fluff camp tone of Barbieland may lead one to believe

Hindustan Times • 26th July 2023

Projectionists step out of shadows, felicitated for their silent contribution to cinema

The Film Heritage Foundation celebrates the life and work of Indian film projectionists, essential cogs in the wheel on which single-screen theatres moved

Moneycontrol • 1st July 2023

Lust Stories 2 is testament to how the depiction of female desire in Bollywood has evolved—or not

Lusty women aren’t rare in Bollywood, but an accurate portrayal of what women really want is

Moneycontrol • 18th June 2023

The Archies in India: How a very American comic book became a major pop culture influence all the way here

As Zoya Akhtar’s 'The Archies' readies for release of Netflix, here’s a look at why Riverdale and its teenage residents have held our attention for at least half a century.

The Established • 16th June 2023

Profile: Why actor Tillotama Shome refuses to cower to the film industry

A mainstay of the independent cinema circuit for decades, after her debut in Monsoon Wedding, the actor is now flexing her muscles to dominate the small screen, intent on carving her niche on her own terms

The Established • 12th June 2023

Consuming too much true crime can take a toll on your mental health

Why do we keep consuming true crime content when it can play on our minds in grave ways?

Moneycontrol • 11th June 2023

Cowabunga! Why the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are still alive and kicking 40 years on

As Seth Rogen’s animated movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem gears up for an August release, here’s a look at a franchise that peaked during the 1990s, but might just make a comeback

Vogue India • 10th June 2023

The female cop in Bollywood is more than just a badass

Under the khakis, aviators and holsters, the female cop in Bollywood may be the empathetic, softer antipode to the righteousness of the Simbas and Singhams of the world

Moneycontrol • 7th May 2023

How Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 uses music to tap into our nostalgia for another time

Nostalgia is a potent force, and Hollywood has known this for longer than you’d think.

Hindustan Times • 2nd May 2023

Ideas, not sparks, flew when Sudhir Mishra met Vivek Agnihotri

The two directors met at Agnihotri’s studio for a conversation to air grievances, discuss prejudice, and importantly, find common ground. The conversation, they say, is the beginning of a civil dialogue

Moneycontrol • 29th April 2023

Indian Matchmaking on Netflix: 2 good seasons and 1 okay season later, is it time to wrap up?

Lately, the show has been accused of a lack of diversity. Three seasons of upper-caste, upper-class Hindus (mostly): It does seem to be getting repetitive.

Moneycontrol • 28th April 2023

Ponniyin Selvan 2 review: Mani Ratnam’s sequel to PS-1 is a tremendous accomplishment

Mani Ratnam and a star-studded ensemble cast shine once again in a film that fully amps up the action, intrigue, romance and heartbreak that made Ponniyin Selvan - 1 such a crowd favourite.