Guddi screening at India Habitat Centre

If you’re a movie buff and in Delhi on October 31, please mark your calendars. Penguin India is organising a screening of Hrishikesh Mukherj...

Reviews and responses 1: a "tough" and "discomfiting" book

Here’s a nice review - by Mayank Shekhar - of the Hrishikesh Mukherjee book. I appreciate this bit:   “This is a tougher book to write [tha...

Jazbaa: Irrfan kicks ass...and that's about it

[ And the Irrfan Khan theme for the week continues. Wrote this piece for The Daily O ] There were two moments in Sanjay Gupta’s Jazbaa (tho...

Thoughts on Talvar: Holmes in the heart of darkness

[ Did a version of this piece for my Mint Lounge column ] In an early scene in Meghna Gulzar’s Talvar , CDI officer Ashwin (Irrfan Khan) jok...

Many goodies at the Chandigarh Literature Festival

A shout-out about this year’s edition of the Chandigarh Literature Festival , being held from November 5-8. I have been helping ...

Stars - big ones and little ones - descending

[ From my Mint Lounge column; this is also a continuation of thoughts about Nawazuddin Siddiqui from this post ] Vienna, late at night, film...

Farida Jalal, Tarun Bose, Usha Kiran - and other underrated actors in Hrishikesh Mukherjee's cinema

From Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor and Meena Kumari to Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore and Rajesh Khanna to Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha, Hrishikesh M...