I was watching Nawazuddin’s interview online in which he was speaking passionately about his movie Raman Raghav 2.0. He expected the movie to do well. However the interviewer was bemused, as the dark movie showed killing of a young child and how can you expect such a dark movie to do well with Indian audiences! …
Like the title divided in two languages, the movie can also be seen as a tale of two halves. One is raw, exciting, refreshing, and the other is slow, tiring…. with a smart ending! Over the years, Anurag Kashyap has created a brand for his ‘real’, ‘hard-hitting’ cinema, and as with any brand, we have …
There Was Such A Thing (TWSAT) WWF, the World Wrestling Federation’s impact on the collective psyche of 1990’s youth in India can be a great PhD thesis. Such was its impact amongst teenagers in urban and semi-urban areas that even their parents had to take notice, rather give notice : ‘this is not real, it’s …