Hindi films woefully lack deep explorations of the preceding situations of wars and their aftermath—the impact wars have on people, space, time and history.
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30 years on, Andaz Apna Apna enjoys a cult status, that it didn’t when it originally released in 1994. What is in the film that takes millennials back to it again and again for much-needed laughs?
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In the world of jingoism and violent ideas of nationalism, Swades stands apart for its genuine and intense love for the nation, with all its flaws.
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Shree 420 And Jagte Raho are deeply socialist in nature. They speak of community and togetherness in different contexts, but still hold power accountable at every stage.
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Rajkumar Hirani's PK was released ten years ago. Now, more than ever, we need another braver PK to appear onscreen.
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This October, Shah Rukh Khan’s Don completes 18 years since its release. It’s the perfect time to look back at the iconic Don franchise.
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Hindi cinema has a long-standing history of legitimising and perpetuating rape culture
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Very few writers and lyricists have woven anger into poetry with such ease as Gulzar, and made it a part of everyday cultural language.
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In this dystopian world, Guru Dutt becomes more and more essential than ever. As an artist who reminds us to feel. To linger on pathos and let us absorb it
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Despite being added to each other on social networks and our electronic leashes, we are still in the midst of a loneliness epidemic, acute as it is for the digital natives born in a world of networks but limited connections.
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