rom-com Archives

Ginny Weds Sunny Review: Every Shaadi Rom-Com Cliche Ever in One Place

Ginny Weds Sunny, starring Vikrant Massey and Yami Gautam, exploits every shaadi rom-com trope, featuring cheesy pick-up lines that would make Shahrukh Khan proud… in 1997. In a pandemic where everything is uncertain, this is the most predictable film one can find.

Hardik Rajgor June 18, 2016

Love and Sex

Terminally Love-Struck: Does Romance Actually Bloom at Airports?

Growing up I was enamoured by the romance-at-the-tarmac trope – Love Actually and Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na. But the chance of someone dodging security guards for that one passionate kiss are as slim as your Jet Airways flight taking off these days. Yet each time I’m at a terminal, the dormant romantic in me wakes up.

Devrupa Rakshit June 3, 2016

Pop Culture

How Netflix’s Always Be My Maybe Balances Ambition with Romance

Nahnatchka Khan’s Always Be My Maybe isn’t perfect but it is that rare rom-com that comes the closest to responding to the modern times by making its lead actress’s professional identity the sexiest thing about her. In the movie, love involves compromise, just not that of a woman’s career.

Poulomi Das June 1, 2016