Fast-Track Pyaar: How Hindi Movies Made India Fall In Love With Trains
Posted inBollywood

Fast-Track Pyaar: How Hindi Movies Made India Fall In Love With Trains

No Imtiaz Ali film is complete without a train scene. In Love Aaj Kal, a separation unfolds on a train ride and in Jab We Met, a relationship blooms through the course of the journey. But the most iconic train scenes in Bollywood remain Simran running toward Raj in DDLJ and Rajesh Khanna crooning “Mere Sapno Ki Rani” as Sharmila Tagore gazes at him from a coach.
Posted inLove and Sex

Beyond People and Relationships: This is my Modern Love Story about Mumbai

Convention dictates that love manifests in terms of the people we choose to be with but for somebody like me, it is the freedom of not having or wanting to make that choice that has felt the more liberating. Like Prime Video’s ‘Raat Raani’ (part of Modern Love Mumbai) I have found love in moments, inanimate objects and the many ways Mumbai both challenges and supports you. For it is perhaps the only city where you can feel loved without being defined by it.