I don’t know of any other actor who can look both fierce and godly at the same time as Sushmita Sen does in Aarya (Season 2). The woman beams with integrity, conviction,…
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Try as one might, a faithful remake’s chances to succeed need a more powerful word than ‘rare’. Every time I see a bad remake of a foreign film that had got a…
The only possible reason why the new Disney+Hotstar show ‘Aarya‘ would slip into anyone’s watchlist has to be the return of Sushmita Sen. Famously known as the glory of the ’90s after…
2016 was not particularly a great year for Indian cinema. There weren’t many films that broke new grounds or even those which left a lasting impression. The only positive side of the year was the change in the portrayal of women. Up until last year, there weren’t many films that could be stated as an acute representation of women but 2016 gave way for more freedom of expression and the result was an array of films with strong female characters. While I had issues with Leena Yadav’s Parched, I particularly liked how the women in her film were not just characters but people who are living and breathing or at least trying to live and breathe. Here are 10 Hindi Films that were better than the 100 other films released this year.
Being brave and scared are two very closely intertwined feelings. Ram Madvani’s Neerja (2016) tells us that no education can teach you to be brave. It just takes that extra bit of human spirit that needs the right trigger at the right moment. While Neerja does undergo the typical melodramatic turn, the emotions seem more real than they are made out to be.