The number of plot threads may make the film sound like some sort of anthology, but it’s more like a series of slow-burning fuses leading to an existential firecracker that explodes with a big bang. In the Arabian Nights, the king made his queen Scheherazade tell him a new story every day if she wanted […]

https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/features/half-yearly-box-office-report-2024-gross-box-office-collection-films-rs-5015-cr-kalki-2898-ad-hanuman-fighter-films-cross-rs-200-cr-mark/ India gross box office in cr. (January to June 2024) 1. Kalki 2898 AD – Rs. 772 crores2. Hanuman – Rs. 240 crores3. Fighter – Rs. 237.44 crores4. Shaitaan – Rs. 177.96 crores5. Manjummel Boys – Rs. 170 crores6. Guntur Kaaram – Rs. 142 crores7. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire – Rs. 136 […]

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A recent paper entitled “The Economy is Rigged’: Inequality Narratives, Fairness, and Support for Redistribution in Six Countries” examined whether fairness narratives about systemic economicinequality can influence the public’s views on redistributive policies. Intuitively, mediacoverage built on such narratives should… Continue reading →

Author Bio : EXCERPT ‘After this mission, you come back and we will alarm se talk about your father, mother, behen, billi, kutha whoever… Theek hai? And by the way, no shooting with guns here! Relax yaar.. only cameras’ Bagga said and had the gall to wink! Joshi wondered if his family crisis was a joke to him. He marched out in disgust. […]

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The film stars Vicky Kaushal, Triptii Dimri, Ammy Virk. It needed to be tighter, with more gags and a smoother shift to the dramatic portions. Vicky Kaushal has played romantic roles earlier, most notably in Manmarziyan. But from the time he burst into public consciousness with Masaan, his career as a leading man has been […]

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The London School of Economics (LSE) publication ‘CentrePiece’ (Spring 2024) had an article on how we can find out the value people place on time spent doing non-work activities. Putting a value on labour is reasonably straight forward in that… Continue reading →

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As acting goes, Shannen Doherty will not be remembered as a giant. But that is not the only reason we remember actors. For an entire generation of English-speaking Indians raised on Doordarshan, liberalisation and the opening-up of media was represented by Star World and other such channels, and Beverly Hills 90210 was one of the […]

You keep working on something for years and suddenly the announcement happens and it’s surreal. Thank you, @Prince_Pictures and #Sarjun, both for the opportunity and for recognising the writer

By VS Shyam “The best teachers are the ones who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see”- a quote written on one of Maharaja’s many significant inanimate objects. Just like I told you where to look for the quote but not what to see, Maharaja takes us on a journey […]

By Bharath Vijayakumar I walked in to watch Indian 2 pretty much aware that I am not going to like it. If anything, the trailer was enough of a warning. Most times, when you walk into a film with this frame of mind, you hardly get disappointed. Even the bare minimum would work, and you […]

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The film stars a bunch of teenagers and Yogi Babu. It starts off like a ghost story and undergoes a genre shift, but the writing needed to be better. Looking back, it seems fitting that Parthiban’s debut as a director was called Pudhiya Paadhai, i.e., New Path. Because that is the thing that has come […]