New Delhi, Sept. 12 -- Fifteen years ago, when I first started writing a regular column for a newspaper, the most poetic response came from the filmmaker Sudhir Mishra. He told me he was looking forwa... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 6 -- Richard Osman's bestselling series of novels The Thursday Murder Club deserved a great adaptation, and the first book actually got one. It's just that it wasn't on screen. I con... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- James Bond is dead. Not only on screen-although the last of the Daniel Craig outings, No Time To Die, was indeed a weepie that killed him-but the character himself is now a perfe... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 21 -- My comfort-food show these days happens to be a sitcom from the 1990s. Over the years, I'd caught reruns of Mad About You-starring Paul Reiser and the incomparable Helen Hunt-but... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- If you're over 30, you've not watched the most popular animated movie in the world right now. Unless, of course, you are a parent. There exists a vast, brightly lit playground of... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- There are times when friends are fighting when no punches are pulled. In the second season of the exceptional Apple TV+ comedy Platonic, we see Rose Byrne's Sylvia and Seth Rogen... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- Who is the hero of Sholay? This is a valid question. Thakur, played by Sanjeev Kumar, gets the revenge. Veeru, played by Dharmendra, gets the girl. Jai, played by Amitabh Bachchan... Read More
New Delhi, July 31 -- There's a moment in the 1980 comedy Airplane!-one of the funniest films of all-time, available to rent on Amazon Video-where a worried passenger says, "Surely, you can't be serio... Read More
New Delhi, July 26 -- Five sociopaths arrive at an underfunded black school. Which Philadelphia sitcom does that plotline belong to? It's right up the alley for Abbott Elementary, the school in questi... Read More
New Delhi, July 19 -- Remember when Lena Dunham was the most important voice in television? Girls, her chaotic, semi-autobiographical HBO series, smashed its way into the prestige TV landscape like a ... Read More