Trisha Gupta is a Delhi-based writer and critic, and Professor of Practice at the Jindal School of Journalism and Communication
April 13,2024 18:06:57 PM
What makes Kiran Rao’s script rare for mainstream Bollywood is her attempt to take viewers from the sort of wisdom that offers commentary on an unjust world, to the sort that can see beyond it
October 15,2017 00:10:47 AM
Once, bad guys had all the cash. But like the audience, contemporary Hindi cinema has learnt to listen respectfully when money does the talking.
June 20,2015 00:00:06 AM
To represent the immense variety of texts produced by Indian women over the last 2,000 years — in 350-odd pages — is no mean feat.
March 07,2013 03:14:02 AM
Kai Po Che is an affective comment on Gujarats politics
July 06,2012 03:42:15 AM
Low on budget,high on joy,this little movie industry is special
April 14,2012 00:36:20 AM
As Geoff Dyer annotates a movie,it becomes a deliberately provocative,wry response to our world
March 19,2012 00:13:03 AM
Vidya Bagchis journey is unusual for a Hindi film heroine
December 02,2011 02:42:08 AM
The Help may seem like a sentimental movie about another time and place,but it deeply implicates us
May 21,2011 01:01:42 AM
Where Hindi teachers are always khadoos?
January 14,2011 02:58:04 AM
The big fat Indian shaadi and Bollywood make a charming pair.
November 05,2010 04:40:51 AM
This years big-ticket Diwali release,Action Replayy,starring Akshay Kumar and Aishwarya Rai,is billed as a science fiction romantic comedy.
February 05,2009 23:32:09 PM
This isnt about liberal freedoms so much as gender and class
