Author Bio : Ajay Gehlawat is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Theatre and Film at Sonoma State University, USA. He is the author of Reframing Bollywood (2010) and Twenty-First Century Bollywood (2015), as well as editor of The Slumdog Phenomenon (2013) and co-editor of The Evolution of Song and Dance in Hindi Cinema (2019). Bloomsbury India link: https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/bollypolitics-9781350401891/ Or Amazon link: https://www.amazon.in/s?k=Bollypolitics%25blooms
By Aadesh Ramaswamy Aadujeevitham is difficult to criticize cos the normal audience, who are arguably moved by it, will shut u down with the simple fact that it got into production 16 years ago. It happens when the audience is very attached to a film, which is ofc the good thing about social media. But […]
Author B. Jeyamohan 1995 Translated by V. Vijaysree Big grownups are all bad. ShenbagaKuzhalvaimozhi, the little girl with the long name, has come to this grand conclusion before she arrives at the Hall of Thousand Pillars. This is one place in the huge temple with hardly any people, big or little. The hall is a […]
By MANK Tabassum Fatima Hashmi aka Tabu was the most talented, but (Box office wise) the least successful of all the actresses to make their debut in Hindi films during the 1990s. After playing the conventional heroine in most of her early 90s films, she was relegated to thedreaded rank of supporting actress in some […]
By Rahini David I was reading the recent and very relatable RWI by Abishekspeare and the reply was getting long enough to be its own RWI and so here goes. The disillusioned feeling after months of over-consumption of social media is so common and it happens so regularly to so many of us that it is a […]
The film features Rohit Saraf, Adarsh Gourav, Sanjana Sanghi, Charu Bedi. There’s friendship, love, and everything else that makes up adolescence. Sajid Ali has said that if streaming platforms hadn’t popped up, Woh Bhi Din The – which he directed before Laila Majnu – would have never seen the light of day. On the one […]
With the northern hemisphere getting ready for the external exams in May/June here is a revision post on how the elasticity of demand varies along a demand curve. Notice in Case A that the fall in price from Pa to…
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It is the job of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand to keep the consumer price index (CPI) between 1 – 3% aiming for 2%. However, to many people the CPI is foreign to them and price stability is impossible…
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Prithviraj Sukumaran shoulders the movie heroically. But the overblown nature of the event-filled narrative never lets us connect with the plight of the protagonist. Seen one way, Aadujeevitham is already the stuff of cinema legend. Benyamin’s book showcased the horrifying story of a Malayali – named Najeeb – who went to Saudi Arabia for one […]
Different objectives of firms could be part of an essay question on market structures – perfect and imperfect competition. The standard neo-classical assumption is that a business seeks to maximise profits (MC=MR) from producing and selling an output in a…
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The film features Tabu, Kareena Kapoor Khan, and Kriti Sanon. It isn’t the perfect caper, but it gets the job done. Sometimes, it’s just nice to see a bunch of high-wattage stars having fun. If you are in the mood, and if the bar isn’t set too high, Crew – directed by Rajesh Krishnan – […]
