ENTERTAINMENT
Sharmajee Ki Beti movie review: Tahira Kashyap Khurrana's directorial debut is a feel-good ode to girlhood
Sharmajee Ki Beti review: Finally, an ode to girlhood and Indian women's aspirations that doesn't feel weighed down by its message. Tahira Kashyap Khurrana's debut film as a Bollywood director is a must-watch.
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Arvind Panagariya: 'Galwan Valley incident persuaded me that China could no longer be fully trusted as a trading partner'
Economist Arvind Panagariya in an exclusive interview to Moneycontrol explains why liberalization of imports will bring net benefit to India, why and how India should revise its trade relationship with China, and why FTAs with the UK and EU are so important.
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Book review: Mumbai writer's second Independence era novel is funny and fast-paced
What to read: Set amid India's independence movement, Parashar Kulkarni's 'Darako' explores themes that feel timeless. Despite the weighty subjects, the writing stays light-footed, fast-paced and non-judgemental.
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Maharaj review: Aamir Khan's son Junaid Khan's Bollywood debut film makes a splash, but for the wrong reasons
What to watch on Netflix: The Gujarat High Court cleared Maharaj for release on June 21. Ironically, the Maharaj controversy is one of two major reasons to watch the film.
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Kota Factory 3 Review: Jeetu Bhaiya's satya, peak pressure to crack IIT-JEE make Season 3 of 'Kota Factory' gloomier
Kota Factory 3 focuses as much on the teachers—played wonderfully by Jitendra Kumar, Tillotama Shome and Rajesh Kumar—as students Vaibhav, Meena, Uday and others. As IIT-JEE exams approach and the pressure mounts, the original background score by Arpit Mehta and Simran Hora amps up the tension.
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Interview | How select Berlinale Shorts made it into the Mumbai International Film Festival 2024 programme
Mumbai International Film Festival from June 15-21 is screening 12 short films handpicked from the last five years of the Berlin International Film Festival. Berlinale Shorts curator Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck on how she made the selection for MIFF 2024, and what to watch.
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MIFF 2024: First-ever Documentary Bazaar, must-see films, special packages and masterclasses at 18th Mumbai International Film Festival
MIFF film festival: Don't miss the retrospective of Jiri Trnka, 'Alien': a documentary about America's H1-B visa and Indian immigrants in the US, and masterclasses at the Mumbai film festival.
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Bollywood actor Sanjay Kapoor: 'Entertainment doesn't mean naach gana only'
Sanjay Kapoor on being part of a family of producers and actor including brothers Boney Kapoor and Anil Kapoor, doing OTT projects from Murder Mubarak to House of Lies, and working with heroines like Madhuri Dixit Nene, Manisha Koirala and Karisma Kapoor again.
LIFESTYLE
Titan Co managing director: People become used to higher gold prices
Titan MD CK Venkataram on his new book, The Tanishq Story; the mistakes Tanishq made when it launched in the 1990s; designing jewellery at a time when gold prices are skyrocketing; and his tips for Gen Z and Alpha generation workers.
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Best Netflix romantic comedies starring Glen Powell: Richard Linklater's Hit Man and Anyone But You
Best romantic comedy movies starring Glen Powell, on Netflix: 'Hit Man' on Netflix is inspired by a true story about a fake assassin and 'Anyone But You' is an inspiring story about leaning into what feels right in love and life. Reasons to sign up for a Glen Powell double bill on Netflix this weekend.
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Gullak Season 4 ending explained: Aman Mishra writes a love letter, Anand Mishra shines at work & Santosh and Shanti Mishra get free Goa tickets
Gullak Season 4 sees the Mishra family bond getting stronger after a major fight in the last episode, after which Aman threatens to leave, Santosh is worried sick, Anand has to drive around for two hours after a long day at work and Shanti is trying to keep it all together.
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Sanjay Kapoor's 'House of Lies' film on Zee5: Crypto coins & a whodunnit where the butler did it, sort of
Free-to-stream film House of Lies is a murder mystery in the vein of Agatha Christie stories that unfold largely through conversations between an investigator and the murder suspects, usually in a gorgeous but remote location.
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Panchayat Season 3: Abhishek and Rinki's slowburn romance, a white horse, Banrakas Bhushan's new schemes, gun violence and approaching elections
Panchayat Season 3 feels like an elaborate set-up for elections in Panchayat Season 4. Violence escalates quickly as MLA Chandrakishore Singh's inflated sense of self deepens his conflict with Phulera. On the other hand, love grows slowly as Rinki and Abhishek negotiate what's proper and what is not in this minefield of feelings vs parental and official expectations.
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Jennifer Lopez's 'Atlas' on Netflix engages with the biggest AI debates of today
Netflix's 'Atlas' film review: Jennifer Lopez saves the world and makes an AI friend in this family entertainer with an intelligent core, but don't expect new ideas or mind-blowing execution from this small yet competent sci-fi drama.
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'Mr & Mrs Mahi' songlist: How 'Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!' composer Dhruv Dhalla's song 'Ranjhana' got into the Dharma Productions film
Producer Karan Johar's Mr & Mrs Mahi is set to release in theatres on May 31. With the just days to go, songs from the film are starting to drop online. A conversation with Bollywood composer Dhruv Dhalla, who created a Punjabi song for the upcoming movie.
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Amitava Kumar & the art of journalling to make sense of the post-pandemic world
Despite its many similarities to The Blue Book, there are some important points of departure in The Yellow Book. A look at Amitava Kumar's journalling in words and artworks across the two books.
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6 reasons to watch Netflix's The Great Indian Kapil Show with Rohit Sharma & Shreyas Iyer
Which cricketers would Rohit Sharma avoid sharing a room with? Who uses the most cuss words in the Indian team? How does Rohit Sharma look when he is emotional yet proud at the same time? Is Shreyas Iyer always such a good sport? Questions that come up, and are answered, in the context of the new Kapil Sharma show on Netflix.
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Hindustan Zinc chairperson: Not just gender diversity, bring in diversity of thought & expertise
Priya Agarwal Hebbar, daughter of Anil Agarwal, heads the board of Vedanta Ltd subsidiary company Hindustan Zinc.
ENTERTAINMENT
'His parents had this desire & hope that Sidhu Moose Wala will return in some form'
"Sidhu Moose Wala's parents didn't want news of the second child to be leaked till the child was delivered. Most of the media persons in Punjab...especially in the Mansa and Bathinda region, they knew about it. The family had confirmed. But none of us wrote about it."
LIFESTYLE
Max India's Tara S Vachani on improving infrastructure for elderly women, tips for women leaders
Women's Day 2024 | Tara Singh Vachani: "As women entrepreneurs in leadership positions, one can sometimes feel constrained and type-casted amidst societal expectations and unconscious biases. However, embracing our unique voice is key to inspiring and leading the team."
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Women's Day 2024 | Former SBI chairman Arundhati Bhattacharya: Don't wait for female role models
Salesforce Chairperson and CEO Arundhati Bhattacharya on why and how companies need to support women in the workforce, why the search for women role models is too limiting and why Arundhati Bhattacharya is famous.
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2024 India Design ID: 3 must attend talks & sessions on all things design
India Design ID: Experts in the field talk about architecture, urban planning as well as interior design ideas that are most relevant and prevalent today.
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3 art works that made a mark at the India Art Fair 2024
From LN Tallur's deepdive into how artificial intelligence works to Karishma Swali and Eva Jospin's new canvas - literally and figuratively - for Indian embroidery, a look at the bigger and more impactful exhibits from the art fair that ended on February 4.
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India Art Fair director Jaya Asokan: To show collectible design seemed like a natural progression
What to expect at the India Art Fair 2024, the focus on collectible design that is both functional and a piece of art, the latest BMW art car, how to get started if you're thinking about becoming an art collector and more from India Art Fair director Jaya Asokan.
