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When Gurmeher Kaur, whose father died in the Kargil War, noted on a placard, “Pakistan did not kill my dad, war killed him”, all of the right-wing military industrial complex raised hell and havoc. She got a book deal with Penguin Random House, they were left panting on Facebook. The …

Karthik Subbaraj, the director of Dhanush-starrer Jagame Thandhiram, speaks about what his expectations were about the reception for the film, why he consciously chose to treat the dramatic and gangster parts of the film differently and what he thinks of Jigarthanda today, seven years after its release. Edited Excerpts… Suruli …

Dickinson is a show on Apple TV+ about the life of the great poet Emily Dickinson, her poems, and love itself. It is an insight into what it was like to be a female writer in the 19th century. In season 2, she explores her anxieties about fame, publishing and …

Since time immemorial, we find ourselves in a perennial search for aliens, Godot and new TV shows. It won’t be an exaggeration to say that unpacking the unfamiliar world of a new series, sometimes, ends up giving a new meaning to our lives. Since we are well-versed with the nitty-gritties …

“Pay attention, you guttersnipes!” our English teacher in school, who fancied himself Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) from My Fair Lady, used to shout at the top of his voice. Without Google or the will to go through a dictionary for its meaning, we ignorantly mimicked that word behind his back. …

Created by: Raj & DKStarring: Manoj Bajpayee, Priyamani, Samantha AkkineniStreaming on: Amazon Prime Video The excellent first season of The Family Man showed how even a familiar, tried and tested tale can be elevated through genius-level writing. It’s basically the same old cops and robbers template with Srikant Tiwari (Manoj …

A new Netflix dating show is enough to raise eyebrows, but Sexy Beasts comes with the dottiest of twists: singles arrive at blind dates dressed in elaborate creature/monster costumes and make-up that totally obscure their physical features. The bottom line: could you fall in love with somebody based on personality alone? …

In this series, Team FC scours the best of the internet every week to bring you a list of great reads, watches and more, from the world of film and entertainment. The reboot of the beloved TV series Gossip Girl premieres next month on HBO Max. A lengthy article in Vulture examines how efforts …

Remember the journalist who shared a cup of gulab jamun and vanilla ice cream with Paan Singh Tomar in the titular film? Or the lawyer Mirza hired to help him transfer the haveli to his name in Gulabo Sitabo? It’s been years since Jab We Met, but one still can’t …

Created by: Shailendra JhaDirector: Ranjan ChandelStarring: Zoya Hussain, Pawan Malhotra, Wamiqa GabbiStreaming on: Disney+ Hotstar Based on Satya Vyas’s novel Chaurasi, the premise of Grahan is compelling. The 8-episode series is centred on a Ranchi IPS officer named Amrita Singh (Zoya Hussain) who, on the eve of the 2016 elections, …

We’re been tracking Kareena Kapoor Khan since 2016 – she’s always a delight to chat with, be it about her film choices, her approach towards parenthood and stardom. Here’s a roundup of That’s What She Said to us from then to now. #KareenaKapoorKhan Have you subscribed to Film Companion yet? …

David Prior’s The Empty Man, based on Cullen Bunn and Vanesa R. Del Rey’s graphic novel of the same name and available on Disney+ Hotstar, is by far the best horror film I have seen this year. Originally released on October 23, 2020, the film was initially met with negative reception. …

Old Bollywood and medicine had a strange relationship. While there are some movies that got the medical facts right, most of them either had no clue about medicine, or else it came in the way of good storytelling. Here are some shining examples. Pregnancy tests: What are those? There is …

Dhanush’s Suruli in Jagame Thandhiram starts off as a mercenary gangster from Madurai and ends up as someone who realizes the plight of refugees and immigrants in the UK. Getting out of his own little world gives him the perspective he needs. DCP Raghavan from Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu single-handedly finds clues …

Music and storytelling are a formidable combination. The power of words coupled with the mellifluous magic of a melody is a potent cocktail that inebriates our soul in the most remarkable manner. There are some films that have defined and moulded the intricacies of our childhood through the wizardry of …

Something awful once happened to Joe Deacon (Denzel Washington), now deputy sheriff in Kern County, a dusty outpost in California. Once a detective in LA, he “worked the case so hard he got a suspension, a divorce, and a triple bypass in 6 months”. His brief return to LA, an …

Amit Masurkar was 20 when he quit engineering midway to pursue a career in films, and 32 when he made his first, Sulemani Keeda, a truly indie slacker film about two struggling screenwriters in Versova. As likeable as Sulemani Keeda was, few would have predicted the smooth shift in gears …

The first time I heard the song, it was in the most chaotic of all situations: traffic. I was about 8 years old then. I was sitting on my father’s lap in the front seat of a car. We were on our way back home from a hospital in the …

The hallways. The stairs. The classrooms. The benches. The old charts hanging on the bulletin boards. If I close my eyes, I can still smell school, four years after last being there. For more than a year I’ve been stuck at home, long enough to not like it anymore. The …

RJ Balaji, actor and director of Mookuthi Amman speaks to Baradwaj Rangan about his new Spotify podcast ‘Naallanaa Murukku’ and what motivates him to constantly find new platforms. Edited Excerpts… What is this need to constantly find new platforms? Is it because of your restless nature? You’ve done direction, commentary …

The trailer for The Suicide Squad, DC‘s so-called ‘standalone sequel’ to 2016’s Suicide Squad, opens with Idris Elba, as Bloodsport/Robert DuBois (pronounced the French way, ‘dew-bwa’), in jail. A stony-faced Viola Davis threatens to put his daughter in danger if he doesn’t join the Suicide Squad. The mission is “more important than …

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Who would have thought that a romantic drama would open with the line, “What can you say about a 25-year-old girl who died?” What sort of a stone-hearted person would do such a thing? Arthur Hiller’s Love Story (1970) didn’t just go on to become a blockbuster in the United …

There can be many reasons one has a Disney+Hotstar account. For the IPL. For Laxmii. For Mare Of Easttown. The catalogue, apart from Disney+Hotstar’s original programming, is curated from HBO, Star, Asianet, and ABC Studios, among others. It has movies by Pedro Almodóvar and Jafar Panahi, along with Indian soap …