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
New Delhi, July 10 -- Seventeen years ago, Formula One had its worst night. The Singapore Grand Prix was F1's first night race, held in the middle of a bustling, spectacular city, and attending fans-... Read More
New Delhi, July 4 -- Comedians mine insights. That's the job. They observe something nobody has explored in quite the same way, finding a different vantage point, a different take, a different hypothe... Read More
New Delhi, June 25 -- I'm intrigued by the main character in Panchayat. The slow and simple village series on Amazon Prime Video, over its four seasons, has gone from being clutter-breaking and sharp ... Read More