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Stree, Review: Ironing ‘bored’ What do you call a female ghost? For want of a better word, the villagers who are haunted by this entity call it Stree (Hindi for woman). Fair enough. If English...
Searching, Review: Top-notch laptop thriller? An Asian American plays the main lead in this girl gone missing tale, while the missing daughter is played by Asian American girls at four different...
Yamla Pagla Deewana--Phirse/3, Review: YPDP 3, Y indeed? Is good judgement failing the Deols? And did any well-wisher not bring to their notice that the story and screenplay of Yamla Pagla Deewana...
Papillon, Review: Watchable remake of impressive 1973 prison escape saga A hard act to follow, Papillon 2017 finds release a year after its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival....
Alpha, Review: Man and his best friend surviving in the Ice Age It’s not a dog who is man’s best friend in Alpha, but a wolf given that name by Keda, a young man who lived in Upper Paleolithic...
The Stolen Princess, Review: Ukrainian animation comes of age, comes to India Indian media-house major Ultra, a diversified company, brings four language versions of the Ukrainian animation feature,...
Aretha Franklin: Soul Music Loses its Queen, its Soul American soul music queen, singer Aretha Franklin, died on August 18, aged 76, of pancreatic cancer in Detroit, where she grew up. Memphis,...
Final day of Sanhita’s theatre festival: Language of Hindustani theatre, and ode to an iconic Hindi poet August 17 marked the end of the three-day Natya Mahotsav (theatre festival) organised by...
Sanhita’s 3-day festival of theatre: Good plays, poor audiences Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, film and theatre personality, and his wife Rasika Agashe, together with like-minded veterans, have often...
Satyameva Jayate, Review: Blood-letting, blood curdling, blood-bath with pyre power Milap Milan Zaveri declared in a press interview a week ago that he will never make a sex comedy again, after the...