ENTERTAINMENT
Film Nostalgia: Why does ‘Satya’ matter after 25 years?
In the '90s, when creativity responded to seismic changes in the world, a film made with around Rs 2.5 crore with only one established star in it, shattered all movie-loving tastes in India.
ART
A Mumbai group exhibition looks at the female gaze in art and women’s place in the sun
DAG’s group show of ten 60-plus women artists from India takes us to a time when Indian women artists first found a feminist language — and their art is as 2023-feminist as it was 1970s’-feminist.
ENTERTAINMENT
Tora’s Husband review: Rima Das’s cinema of interiority will be remembered for its austerity and emotional muscle, can feel drawn-out
The Assamese director’s new film, which released in theatres across India on September 29, and set during the pandemic, unsentimentally zooms in on a family’s physical and emotional attempts to stay afloat.
HEALTH-AND-FITNESS
The Whole Truth | Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month: The emperor’s new hopes
September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month and is the same month when India and the US have agreed to join hands on the war on cancer. What does this tie-up mean?
ENTERTAINMENT
The Morning Show Season 3 review: The new media screw-up
New media bullies, technocratic ruthlessness and the fate of the cancelled in Season 3 of Apple TV’s prestige media soap ‘The Morning Show’
ENTERTAINMENT
The new life of celluloid: Oppenheimer, Asteroid City to home-grown independent films
It isn’t just Christopher Nolan and a small privileged coterie of Hollywood directors who keep celluloid filmmaking alive. Around the world, indie and amateur cinematographers are choosing the film negative for texture, look and cinematic rigour.
HEALTH-AND-FITNESS
The Whole Truth | In search of longevity with Dan Buettner
In a new Netflix show, 'Live To 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones', the world’s most experienced longevity researcher finds the world’s 'blue zones'. But are these zones replicable everywhere there is human civilisation?
ENTERTAINMENT
Is Punjabi pop the new hip-hop?
After Prime Video’s documentary on AP Dhillon, a fictional series ‘Bajao’ on Jio Cinema puts the spotlight on this genre, having a direction-altering moment in its history.
HEALTH-AND-FITNESS
The Whole Truth | Yasmin Karachiwala breaks down our fitness ‘wants’
In her new book, Mumbai’s most famous fitness guru, coach to Bollywood aristocracy, has a name for your fitness personality. Which one are you?
TRENDS
‘West Side Story’ at NMACC, Mumbai: The timeless appeal of love and war
The NMACC brings a Broadway production of the Broadway musical, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’, to Mumbai. What’s the global, timeless appeal of this very American story?
TRENDS
Guns & Gulaabs directors Raj & DK: ‘OTT liberated us as filmmakers’
Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK on their first Netflix show ‘Guns & Gulaabs’, the success of their middle-of-the-road formula and the innocence of the 1990s.
TRENDS
Being Indian: What it means to be a VFX pioneer in India today
As a co-founder of Prime Focus and now leading DNEG, one of the world’s largest VFX companies, Merzin Tavaria looks forward to an AI age when human artistry will matter more than ever before.
ART
The new art collector: What do millennials and Gen-Z want from the art world?
Over the past decade, consumer behaviour studies have concluded that millennials have a large appetite for self-improvement and informal learning, and it applies to their approach to investing in art.
HEALTH-AND-FITNESS
The Whole Truth | The protein fix
This year, cottage cheese (chhena), close to the Indian paneer in taste not texture, has been hailed as the perfect dairy protein.
ENTERTAINMENT
The truth-tellers: 4 political documentaries to watch on Zee5
Power and greed, military valour, climate crisis, dissent and freedom of speech — four feted documentaries that just dropped on Zee5.
ENTERTAINMENT
Made in Heaven 2: New India’s woke wedding extravaganzas
Season 2 of Amazon Prime Video’s ‘Made in Heaven’ shows it like it is: Wealthy woke India won’t tolerate archaic customs and prejudices, but the absurdly luxe destination wedding is still a pivotal life event.
HEALTH-AND-FITNESS
The Whole Truth | The rise of social wellness through community-driven healing events
Niche, community-specific spaces, events, retreats and virtual rooms are bringing communities together to galvanize collective wholesomeness. Here's where to find them in India.
LIFESTYLE
Toiletpaper comes to NMACC in Mumbai
The best way to beat the incessant rain blues is to head to the NMACC for ‘Run As Slow As You Can’. This exhibition is extreme fun, a visual blast.
ENTERTAINMENT
Barbie review | Greta Gerwig’s pink mutiny
A feminist fable, a saturation of colour and humour, patriarchy smasher — for a meta-messaging film, ‘Barbie’ is total bananas and riotous fun.
BOOKS
Book review | In ‘Smoke and Ashes’, Amitav Ghosh connects the dots between opium, China and the world today
Author Amitav Ghosh’s new book, based on the rigorous research that informed his Ibis Trilogy, is a genre-bending cautionary tale about bullish globalisation.
ENTERTAINMENT
Reviews | ‘Survival of the Thickest’: Finally, a worthy antidote to ‘Sex and the City’
It’s breezy, not serious, romantic not pretty, but firmly in rom-com mould. Your chick flick pick this week is ‘Survival of the Thickest’.
HEALTH-AND-FITNESS
The Whole Truth: Can “blood boys” slow ageing, prolong life?
Teen plasma transfusions by Ambrosia may have been shut down by the US FDA, but Tech Moguls from Mark Zuckerberg to Peter Thiel have all poured money into life-prolonging and anti-ageing research.
TRENDS
Barbie Rekha: Is there such a thing as optimal airbrushing?
After the stunningly air-brushed Vogue Arabia cover, Myntra asked their resident AI tool to imagine Bollywood’s forever prima donna as Barbie. But gravely photoshopped Rekha begs the question: Is there something called optimal airbrushing?
HEALTH-AND-FITNESS
The Whole Truth | Why loneliness is worse than smoking
Several new studies point to its hazardous effects. In overpopulated and over-familial India, it’s worse because of the taboos around being single.
