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
New Delhi, Oct. 3 -- Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, currently in theatres, is the most acclaimed American film of 2025. It is a tour de force packed with great performances, not leas... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- Back in 2007 when Farah Khan made Om Shanti Om, I had described the film as an award ceremony minus the awards: a series of in-jokes and celebrity-heavy sketches stitched around... Read More