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B-Town Wonder Women and their Wingmen
In 2016, we saw movies like Pink and Dangal that were premised on the struggles of female heroes – and the men who enabled them.
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Masaba Masaba Exposes the Dark Side of Girlbossing
Though Masaba Masaba looks stylised and elite, it also captures the dark, often underexplored and unsexy side of Girlbosses.
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Sui Dhaaga Review: A Fine Portrait of the Emotional Labour of Small-Town Women
Sharat Katariya’s Sui Dhaaga falters in several places, but it shines when the spotlight is on its women. In a film about dignity of labour, Katariya’s mastery is most evident in parts where the focus is on the immense emotional and domestic labour every married small-town woman inevitably shoulders.
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Dear Ad Makers, Do Superstars Really Drive Hatchbacks or Wear Sasta Baniyans?
What’s the deal with celebrity endorsements? Do companies really believe that consumers dash out to buy their new car just because Ranveer Singh supposedly uses one? Who really believes a Bollywood superstar would be caught dead driving a modest hatchback?
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Samrat Prithviraj Review: Lacking in Scale, Imagination and Performance
You’re not going to out-craft Sanjay Leela Bhansali, so you’ll have to out-story him. Samrat Prithviraj does no such thing.
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The Brutal Murder of Kung Fu and Yoga
It took all of 90 minutes for Jackie Chan and Sonu Sood to team up and eradicate the ancient practices of kung fu and yoga.
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15 Years of Baghban: It’s All About Guilting Your Children
Baghban might have been a superhit when it released, but the film has aged very badly. The most damning part about the film is the reinforcement of the mistaken notion that all adults choosing to live their lives away from their parents, must certainly hate their elders and treat them like trash.
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Middle-Aged Mard, Here’s How to Stay Relevant: An Instruction Manual from Bollywood “Uncles”
It’s time for the Beta version of middle-aged masculinity in today’s India. You could grow into Dangal da Daddy or Boisterous Bhaijaan. Like the Cause Marketing Kaka you could raise consciousness about feminine hygiene. Or turn into Uncle Humblebrag who uses self-deprecating humour to deliver TED Talks.
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21 Years of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai: Rahul Khanna is a Cheater, and a Misogynist
We caught up with Rahul Khanna to find out what happened to him two decades after Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. He still insists that girls can’t play basketball.
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The Multiverse of Middle-Age Chemistry and How Neena Gupta Created it
Neena Gupta has over the last few years, done some incredible work but it is her chemistry with co-stars like Raghubir Yadav and Gajraj Rao, that has opened both our eyes and imagination to the possibility of romance and chemistry between middle-aged characters.