Dum Laga Ke Haisha Archives

Tumhari Sulu and the Real Housewives of India

The solitary afternoon of the homemaker is a deeply interesting space. And that is what Vidya Balan’s Tumhari Sulu delves into. It’s the only time of the day most housewives acknowledge the loneliness they harbour.

Poulomi Das April 23, 2016

Bollywood

How Ranbir Kapoor’s Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year Became the Conscience of a Generation

Long before Hindi cinema made an aesthetic out of the middle-class, Shimit Amin's criminally underrated Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year, offered a distinctive snapshot of the challenges of middle-class employment, carving with a comical clarity that the good employee is not always the right employee.

Poulomi Das April 23, 2016

Bollywood

Dream Girl Review: A One-Line Premise that Suffers from a Vicky Donor Hangover

Dream Girl suffers from a visible Vicky Donor hangover and says nothing new in its greed to say a little bit of everything. But perhaps the biggest downside of Dream Girl is that it looks like the first sign of Ayushmann Khurrana being held prisoner by his own reputation.

Poulomi Das April 11, 2016

Bollywood

Bala Review: A Simplistic Comedy that Remains Enjoyable Despite its Bald Patches

Despite its glaring flaws, Amar Kaushik's Bala stands out for packaging its grand ideas in the language of small-town India. The film underlines how incapable men are to withstand the cruelties of unreasonable beauty standards that they have heaped on women for centuries.

Poulomi Das April 9, 2016

POV

The Decade in Which I Stopped Punishing Myself for Being Overweight

The 2010s have been the most significant decade of my life. I don’t recall any other time in my life when people, especially women, were so encouraged to accept themselves exactly as they were. Sure, the obsession with losing weight still abounded. But alongside the “Lose 50 pounds by Christmas” articles were pieces titled “Fitness at any size.”

Radhika Oltikar April 5, 2016

Bollywood

The Evergreen Heftiness of Dum Laga Ke Haisha

Dum Laga Ke Haisha is a brilliantly observed portrait of the burden of aspirational manhood innumerable small-town men carry all their lives, headlined by a heroine, who is completely unapologetic about her weight. It is arguably Yash Raj's best romantic comedy in recent years.

Poulomi Das March 29, 2016