Parents, children and changing equations in Nil Battey Sannata

This week sees the release of The Man Who Knew Infinity , about the great – and tragically short-lived – mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan’s...

Celluloid Will: some of my favourite Shakespeare films

[ Did this p iece for BLink's speci al S ha kespeare issue ] Among my most harrowing school memories is one of our class being marched t...

Fear and healing at Land: on Arjun Nath's White Magic

[ Did a shorter version of this review for Open magazine ] In mid-2010, Arjun Nath, a heroin addict in his early thirties, joined a rehabil...

Why Fan reminded me of puppet-masters and their psychotic dolls

Not a review of Maneesh Sharma’s Fan , just some thoughts, best read if you know the basic premise (and you do live on planet earth, yes?). ...

Flyovers, fans, Anupam Kher and disco killers (in which life outdoes satire)

[ My latest Mint Lounge column ] Holding a ceiling fan above her head, like a Mother India lurching under the weight of a misshapen, three-p...

The Lost Generation, an account of dying professions

[ Did this review for Outlook magazine ] A s a cliché has it, many eras coexist in India – little wonder that recent iconography for the co...

Unhappy in other ways: how Hindi-film families changed (or did they?)

[ Did this piece for Open magazine . I’m not usually a fan of the medium-sized essay that tries to make sweeping statements about something ...

Coming soon, The Blueberry Hunt

Very pleased for Anup Kurian, whose film The Blueberry Hunt is releasing in selected halls on April 8, more than five years after it was co...

Imperfect photos, happy memories in Kapoor & Sons and 45 Years

[ My latest Mint Lounge column ] Broadly speaking, Shakun Batra’s Kapoor & Sons (Since 1921) can be described as a well-paced drama-com...