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It's brave of Shahane to steer clear of excessive melodrama to invoke emotions in the audience. Slowly as we peel the layers of the director's work, we see her challenging the patriarchal and regressive mindset and creating woman characters who are unapologetic about the choices that they have made in their life. Renuka's characters are far from being pitch-perfect, but that's exactly what makes them relatable. You realize that a mother can be wrong, but that doesn't make her love less. … [Read more...] about Tribhanga Movie Review: Renuka Shahane Deserves Three Cheers For Daring To Play Bold With This Kajol Starrer

The only noteworthy aspect of the film is its lead pair. Akshay Oberoi is talented - no two opinions on that. He has good screen presence, but most importantly, he acts very well. Sandeepa Dhar is another talent that catches your attention. Her expressions are just perfect. Also, she's extremely photogenic. Salman Khan is wasted in a cameo. Mohnish Bahl is his usual self. Shagufta Ali is okay. Prachi Shah does well. Aditya Raj Kapoor is wooden. … [Read more...] about Isi Life Mein Review: a major let down

It’s still dark when I wake up on Independence Day. I’d fallen asleep watching Biden highlights: arriving at magic hour on a civilian plane since Trump wouldn’t send a government aircraft and then standing on the Mall looking at 400 lights representing the 400,000 dead, Biden exudes more empathy the night before his inauguration than paper towel tossing, ‘good people on both sides’ Trump did in four years. It still doesn’t seem real, the end of four years where our president was eating away at our minds, like a particularly virulent form of brain cancer. Like Smokey, I wonder if it is really happening. I head out my hotel door and reflexively tell an older solider to ‘stay safe.’ He points at my press pass and gives a kind smile. “You too.” … [Read more...] about Farewell to a Fascist: Biden, Washington, and America Pick Up the Pieces

This week wasn’t about brilliant knockout performances — it was about getting on with the job and passing the mic. If Bernie Sanders can wear mittens made out of recycled bottles, if the New Radicals guy can finally admit he likes Hanson, if Jon Bon Jovi can celebrate U.S. democracy with a George Harrison song about hanging out with your best pal Eric Clapton without realizing he’s about to trash your marriage, if Jennifer Lopez can turn “Let’s Get Loud” into a Woody Guthrie song, if Gaga doing Anthem honors at a freaking inauguration doesn’t even compute as one of the week’s top thousand craziest concepts — that’s all a tribute to the triumphant weirdness of American music. Always remember us this way. … [Read more...] about The Audacity of ‘Dreams’: Biden’s Inauguration Week and the Triumph of American Musical Weirdness

If that happens rarely, it’s in part, Balram tells us, because of the other dominant image in this movie: that of roosters in a coop, queued up for slaughter, completely aware of and witness to the slaughter of every rooster whose number is called before theirs, yet also lacking the wherewithal to make a run for it. It’s an image in which India’s poor are, as a result of the debilitating psychological effect of poverty, more apt to get in line than they are to try to flee. Balram’s sense of himself, a self-serving one to be sure, is as a white tiger. The story that Bahrani’s film tracks is that of Balram’s own will and cunning — as told by Balram. This being, in large part, a depiction of India at the specific crossroads of globalization and potential prosperity, the narration we hear throughout is actually a letter being written by Balram to China’s then-premier Wen Jiabao. His thesis: Who needs the West? It is not long before we better … [Read more...] about In ‘White Tiger,’ Lessons Are Learned (and Relearned) About India’s Class System