Sakshi is a sub-editor at the Outlook Entertainment Desk. She’s also a documentary filmmaker and mixed-media artist based in Mumbai.
‘The Last Tenant’ (2000), co-starring Vidya Balan, arrives 26 years later on YouTube as a tribute to the legendary Irrfan Khan on his sixth death anniversary.
‘Dug Dug’ (2021) attempts to dissect the phenomenon of how faith is personally and by extension, collectively endured over time. While this description alone sounds quite heavy and bleak, the film ensures to tickle your funny bone throughout its almost two-hour runtime.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani chose to forgo the Met Gala and instead released a fashion portfolio via i-D, photographed by Kara McCurdy. The series highlights six local fashion industry professionals whose work intersects craft and labour advocacy.
Prosthetics, tailoring and ageing references shape Bad Bunny’s Met Gala 2026 appearance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
The Met Gala 2026, themed ‘Costume Art’ with a ‘Fashion is Art’ dress code, saw Indian attendees translate heritage craft into high-concept couture, from Isha Ambani’s 1200-hour Gaurav Gupta saree to Karan Johar’s Raja Ravi Verma-inspired debut.
K-Pop’s biggest names arrive in force, turning the Met Gala into a high-fashion power play with iconic debuts and global star pull all in one room.
Karan Johar stepped onto the Met Gala stage for the first time in a bespoke Manish Malhotra creation inspired by the legacy of Raja Ravi Varma.
Continuing her run of championing Indian designers, Isha Ambani arrived in a hand-painted gold saree shaped by 25 artisans and layered with over 1,800 carats of gemstones.
‘Raja Shivaji’ emerges as a sweeping retelling of Chhattrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s rise, mounted with ambition and scale by debut director Riteish Deshmukh. Grand in vision, yet uneven in execution, it finds its strongest voice in music and selective moments of conviction.
A slow-burn surveillance spy-thriller ‘Patriot’ (2026) probes the uneasy alliance between state power and corporate greed—though not without a few blind spots.
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