Many people say cinema is a mirror of society or it reflects reality. Many movies have been inspired or are based on real-life incidents. What if it was the other way round? A film story inspiring an incident in reality can both be thrilling and fraught with risk for there are no retakes, and the...Read More
Last year, my maternal grandfather died at the age of ninety-one. He saw Gandhi in the flesh when he was a teenager. He lived through the times of ‘Inquilaab’ and ‘Hey Ram’. He followed the Dandi march live on radio. He heard – actually heard – Nehru say: “At the stroke of the midnight hour,...Read More
At the break of dawn when most of us are trying hard to get out of bed and start a day of work at our comfortable offices, Rajesh and his wife with their two little kids are figuring out how to dismantle their home before the cops arrive with their bulldozers to smash everything away....Read More
“I have been living in with my boyfriend for over 3 years now, and we are loving it so far. Given our erratic schedules, marriage is something that’s simply not on the cards right now,” says Deepa from Mumbai, who is working as an assistant manager in a reputed hotel chain. Although quite commonplace in...Read More