Ayushmann Khurrana: 5 Times The Actor Shocked Us With His Roles
Ayushmann Khurrana is a trendsetter of an actor, not by choice. But because, well that’s how he is. The conventional doesn’t suit his temperament. Known to opt for out-of-the-box characters, the star has no qualms about taking up projects that are…
Sweet Bean, Sweet Tender And Stirring
From the land of Akira Kurosawa comes this delectable moving and sweet story of a bond that grows between a street side café owner and a lonely elderly lady who strolls in one day to ask for a job. Kirin Kiki as Tokue doesn’t act. He would never win awards in India. The veteran Masatoshi Nagase reminded me of our own Durga Khote. Both…
Away: One Of The Best OTT Products in Recent Times
Apart from a rather unfortunate utterly stilted India portion, every scene, character and feeling in Away rings true. The story of a woman who mans (yes yes, we see the delicious ironic contradiction there) a spaceship to Mars, is a work of wondrous art with thunderous writing skills manning and maneuvering…
Masaba Gupta Weighs In On Her Acting Debut, Turbulent Childhood And Upcoming Collection |TBI Exclusive
Dress designer Masaba Gupta has crossed over to acting with Masaba Masaba and surprisingly garnered positive reviews for the same. The recently released TV show is based loosely on the lives of Masaba and her mother and veteran actor Neena…
Tenet Is Incomprehensible, Underwhelming
The world, as far I can see it, is threatened with extinction. It’s up to Christopher Nolan’s heroes to save it. The endeavour to avert global catastrophe is pretty close to catastrophic in this long-awaited Christopher Nolan mind-bender. Trying to…
Madhur Mulan, Romancing The Sword
Mulan, no relation to our own timeless tale of reincarnation Milan, is a story that had to be told. It is inspiring and edifying, filled with troves and peaks that live up to every definition of a tradition fable. Director…
Fahadh Faasil: Actor Discusses His Technique, Goals and Responsibility To His Craft |TBI Exclusive
In a career spanning 12 years, Fahadh Faasil has acquired the reputation of being an actor who doesn’t act. He vanishes into every character he plays. Talking to The Brown Identity in a recent interview, Fahadh – Malayalam cinema’s pride…
Happy Birthday Asha Bhosle: The 5 Classics You Haven’t Heard
Asha Bhosle’s breathtaking versatility has spanned a universe of styles, genres and moods. Though most composers of the last millennium favoured her sister Lata Mangeshkar’s voice, there were some like O P Nayyar and Ravi who preferred Ashaji, and believe it or not, there were Lata bhakt composers who somehow gave a classic to Asha Bhosle. The biggest example being Umrao Jaan which went to Ashaji only…
Sorry, Bollywood Is Not The Den Of Debauchery And Vice That It’s Being Made Out To Be
The mounting uproar against the alleged hedonism of Bollywood that began rising to a crescendo after young actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, has now reached a stage where even those who have fed off the ‘Bollywood’ myth for years are calling it unflattering names. On Sunday morning, I woke up to Ms Shobha De’s column where she has spoken of “the rot within…
JL50 Is The Tenet Of India
I confess I didn’t follow the complex plot of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet. I suspect neither did Nolan’s cast and crew. I don’t know if the cast and crew of JL50 followed the plot. I didn’t. This makes director Avinash Vyas the desi Nolan. Does that make any sense to you? No? Then try this: a plane disappears in 1984 and shows up 35…