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Uttara Baokar (1944-2023): The curtain falls on the National Award-winning actor
Remembered for her mother roles, the ‘Tamas’, ‘Ek Din Achanak’, ‘Doghi’ actor was also Umrao Jaan and Shakespeare’s Desdemona on stage. The NSD alumna, who passed away this week, aged 79, was a class in method acting.
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Jubilee review: This is a visually stunning, love-hate story about the movies
Amazon Prime Video takes us down the rabbit hole of nostalgia and glamour with Aditi Rao Hydari, Aparshakti Khurana, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Ram Kapoor, Sidhant Gupta, and Wamiqa Gabbi.
ENTERTAINMENT
Eight films to revisit as Punjab sees separatist politics rear its ugly head again
With separatist politics back on the horizon, time we re-watched these well-argued, well-made screen representations of the immeasurable cost of human lives extracted by partisan ideas raging in our worlds.
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John Wick 4 review: Incredibly violent, impossibly stylish outing for Baba Yaga
John Wick 4 review: Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsgard take the franchise from New York to Jordan, Berlin and Paris.
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Ending of 'The Glory', Korean revenge drama, explained
Moon Dong-eun, Song Hye-kyo, Jung Ji-so, Lim Ji-yeon, Yeom Hye-ran in unforgettable performances, in this show about bullying and vengeance, that will keep you riveted to the screen.
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International Women's Day 2023 | On being a woman filmmaker in India today
Four women directors on being a woman filmmaker today, why there are fewer women filmmakers in India, and whether and how their gender matters in their work.
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Gulmohar review: Sharmila Tagore and Amol Palekar steal the show
Also, don't miss Dilkash by Talat Azia who plays the family friend Avinash.
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Triangle Of Sadness review: From droll to dark, a relentlessly vicious and diabolical film
The battle at sea between the haves and the have nots goes overboard.
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'Farzi', 'Gulmohar' and the return of Amol Palekar to our screens
Veteran actor and director Amol Palekar, the Everyman champion of 1970s middle cinema, has been there, done it all, and shied away from the limelight, every single time.
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'A Man Called Otto' review: Tom Hanks' latest film is a lesson in how to bring back neighbourliness into our lives
Can the super talented Tom Hanks be bested? Meet Mariana Trevino, who does!
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Broker Korean film review: Director Hirozaku Kore-eda's Cannes winner is heart-warming
K-pop singer IU does a commendable job in her film debut.
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2023 Golden Globes nominees and winners: Where to watch them in India and why
Content that is changing our world one show at a time
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Travel hacks | What to do, what not to do in a foreign land
Tip: If you’re in Europe (or travelling across the Andes) and staying at one of the old boutique hotels, remember they may not have elevators to carry your six-piece expandable luggage.
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Best beach holidays in India and the world
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12 sublime mountain holidays in India and abroad, from Japan's Onsens to Patagonia in Argentina
When the mountains call, you answer.
ENTERTAINMENT
Review | 'Little America' Season Two brings home stories of hope
If 'hiraeth' is homesickness, and immigrants everywhere struggle to make a home, where does a show like 'Little America', on AppleTV+, find its soul?
ENTERTAINMENT
Review | 'Slow Horses' quicken your Spidey senses, leads you to more than a cat and mouse game
It’s Gary Oldman season on AppleTV+ and he’s watching you watch him overload on MSG and prawn cakes. There's more than just spooks, killers and kidnappers.
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9 brilliant no-net getaways that will make you wish you did not have to get back to the concrete jungle
Thankfully, there's still plenty of time to figure out where to ring in the New Year. Picture this:
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Savita Ambedkar: The other Dr Ambedkar who lived in the shadow of a giant
A new translation of Dr Savita Ambedkar's Marathi autobiography, by Nadeem Khan, ‘Babasaheb: My Life with Dr Ambedkar', will hopefully help ease the pain of a wife vilified and erased by many.
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65 years of Mother India, and the larger-than-life self-sacrificing women of Hindi cinema
Legend of the suffering mother in Bollywood movies, played by stellar actors from Durga Khote in 'Mughal-e-Azam' to Nargis in 'Mother India' and beyond.
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Ajay Devgn: The man who seethes spectacularly on your screens
From the inimitable lover in 'Omkara' to the gangster in 'Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai', the policeman in 'Singham' and the freedom fighter in 'RRR' - 31 years of Ajay Devgn in the film industry.
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Good Bad Girl review: Cersei, Sin Rostro, Katherine Pierce are out there. Why flounder here?
Neither good enough nor bad enough, Maya in 'Good Bad Girl' flounders when she's been set up to fly.
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From 'Run' to 'Criminal Justice', Pankaj Tripathi has carved out a niche
A look back at Pankaj Tripathi's phenomenal run so far, as Season 3 of courtroom drama Criminal Justice comes to a close.
ENTERTAINMENT
Amitabh Bachchan film festival: Best way to ring in the superstar’s 80th birthday
The many joys of watching Big B on the big screen as part of a multi-city festival, till October 11. Hiccups galore, the organisers did not think the superstar has mad superfans, but evergreen mass actors don't go out of season. Let there be more retrospectives to the living legend
