New Delhi, Dec. 12 -- Chair man, of the bored You fall off a chair and your life falls apart. This is, more or less, the premise of The Chair Company, streaming in India on JioHotstar, but that soun... Read More
New Delhi, Dec. 6 -- There's something gloriously old fashioned about Good Fortune, Aziz Ansari's wholesome buddy comedy that dares to believe in the redemptive power of kindness in an economy designe... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 29 -- A Man On The Inside was one of Netflix's best shows last year. It was based on a delightful (and borderline unbelievable) Chilean documentary called The Mole Agent, created by th... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 28 -- He was the first person to give me an autograph. I was eight. I had handed Dharmendra a notebook with a novelty cover that made it look like a sandwich, and in his massive hand, ... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 20 -- It may seem like a soft target, I know, to go after a show that has received no positive reviews at all. You might well accuse me of piling on, of kicking a well-coiffed corpse t... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 16 -- In Yorgos Lanthimos's new film, Bugonia, a grimy conspiracy theorist beekeeper named Teddy-played with sweaty, unhinged conviction by Jesse Plemons-kidnaps a pharmaceutical CEO n... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 1 -- Philip Roth would like his font back. good romance Nobody Wants This first showed up on Netflix last year, it felt refreshing, even bracing, to see a love story on television whe... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 24 -- The most enduring Hindi film of all, Sholay, is a symphony of vendettas and villains, yet amid the dust and dynamite, there stands Asrani like a misplaced vaudeville act, a chara... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 16 -- Who would not fall in love with Diane Keaton? The Annie Hall heroine was muse to the film's director, Woody Allen, who made eight films with her and remained devoted to her, dec... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- Do you remember The Three Investigators? Those slim detective novels we read as children featured enthusiastic young sleuths falling into cases more complicated and sinister than ... Read More