Nov 21, 2014 On Helen's 76th birthday, revisiting some of the best, most outrageous stages she has ever adorned
May 23, 2016 Marriage and home are one and the same, and both require an investment of effort to flourish against the buffeting of the world.
Mar 31, 2016 Remembering the tragedy queen Meena Kumari on her death anniversary this week.
Mar 17, 2016 The message: once Mother India has made the difficult decisions and painful sacrifices, those of her children who remain will be squarely on the road to prosperity.
Feb 22, 2016 Most of Nadira's characters are not at all likable and yet they are deliciously captivating
Jan 22, 2016 There are many delightful (and some shallow) stories and stereotypes about Parsis and Christians in Indian cinema...
Jan 22, 2015 His movies of the 1990s show the part hero, part benefactor, part avenger, part clown.
Feb 09, 2015 Again and again, Kishore's humble, simple-minded, loony characters win over women who are way out of his league by any societal measure.
Feb 25, 2015 Jewel Thief and Teesri Manzil, each film is, in its own way, an epitome of 60s style.
Apr 04, 2015 The theme of women driven to answer male violence in kind has shown up in quite a few movies of late.
Apr 22, 2015 Suspension of disbelief isn't just a necessary part of the movies — it's part of why we love the movies.
May 30, 2015 Kangana's mad and memorable rendering of Alka helps make Revolver Rani a rich and layered film.
Aug 17, 2015 The women in Salim-Javed's movies are people you feel you want to know.
Sep 07, 2015 These films show revenge not as a personal triumph, but as a dark and dysfunctional desperation, the terrible scream of a broken psyche.
Nov 12, 2015 In some fifty Shabana Azmi movies I've watched, I haven't come across anything else as? demanding as Ishk Ishk Ishk, Gaja Gamini, or the execrable Son of the Pink Panther?.?.. ?
Oct 13, 2014 Visiting India for real lets the films breathe with a new vivacity, especially those in which a location has so much vibrancy as to be a character in its own right.
Nov 06, 2014 Why is the Hindi film pantheon filled with heroes behaving badly? Not the intentionally morally grey type, but those who are essentially just jerks, and yet no one around them seems to mind
Dec 22, 2014 Our columnist spent a day on the sets of PK and found it a much more comfortable mouthful than her first taste of paan there.