The movie “Argo” is about what happened during the Iran hostage crisis during the 1979 Iranian revolution. The CIA and Hollywood collaborated in an undercover operation to rescue six American embassy staff members. The movie is based on a book by Tony Mendez- an ex-CIA officer; and an article from the NY Times, but the …
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Just imagine! Heavy rains pouring down outside, you sitting just beside your window with a cup of tea or coffee and the mouth-watering smell of Bhajis coming from your kitchen where your mom is preparing them. You are all relaxed and enjoying the season to its fullest. Now you want to groove on songs suitable …
Performed at the weekly open mic at the popular space, The Habitat Studios, Mahek Jangda’s poem Mirror is a raw and heartbreakingly real account of her struggles with self-love, self-esteem and body image issues. Mahek’s performance, especially the oral aspect of it, is clear, controlled and calculated. While being precise in its endeavour of expressing …
Theatre a day, keeps boredom away. In a country pervaded by the performing arts, you wonder how many legions of budding actors daily bear the cross of having their dream thwarted by the short shrift given to the thespian’s stage. The word “thespian” comes from Greece and is related to Thespis, the first ever guy …
After giving the audience iconic television comedy shows like The Office, Parks and Recreation and the current audience favourite, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Michael Schur is back with another light-hearted yet thought-provoking show, The Good Place. With an IMDb rating of 8.2, The Good Place is yet another feather in the consistently successful Schur’s cap. Set in …
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The ’90s were not a great time for Marathi or Hindi Cinema in terms of quality of content presented. Movies were plenty but a handful of them carried themes or stories which would have a lasting impact. One such movie from the very early ’90s is 1991’s Marathi film “Chaukat Raja”. The movie is based …
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When someone says “Netflix and chill”, one usually assumes that it means watching some film or a series on Netflix. Though genres like comedy, romance, thriller are the usual favourites, a genre that has a huge fanbase of its own is documentary. As the word says, documentary “documents” some aspect of reality and is usually …
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Among the few things that bring the vast and diverse India together, one is undeniably cricket, the heirloom of our colonial pasts that has remained a part of the Indian psyche. But if you remember the Bollywood film Lagaan, along with cricket, the other thing that brings all Indians, right from Punjab to Uttar Pradesh …
When does a poem become more than a pile of words? A poem is truly elevated when it takes an abstract idea and words it to hint at a lot of other unsaid abstract ideas. Which poem better to illustrate this than “Kitabein Jhankati Hai” by India’s leading poet, and probably the last of the …
Creativity and passion is what fuels an artist to create art. but all artists have days when they feel uninspired. The writers call it a writer’s block, for some artists it is the period of lack of motivation. We have all had days when we are literally in an atmosphere best suited for us to …
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