TRENDS
Zeenat Aman isn’t going gently into the night
Age is everywhere, all at once, except on social media. The ’70s Bollywood superstar is the latest among a few 60-plus Indian women who have inadvertently become anti-ageism champs.
ENTERTAINMENT
Lust Stories and OTTs: When sex is about a bra size, it’s sexism, not sex
Indian OTTs have more sex and sexuality than ever before. But like ‘Lust Stories 2’, very few are real, transcendent or riveting.
ENTERTAINMENT
This BAFTA Breakthrough Indian independent sci-fi director awaits OTTs to look beyond crime thrillers
Sci-fi film director Arati Kadav, a Netflix-supported BAFTA Breakthrough India participant, on making indie sci-fi films in India and the incoming AI storm in the genre.
HEALTH-AND-FITNESS
International Yoga Day 2023 | Take the divinity out of yoga: When yoga gurus turn abusers
With another round of accusations of sexual assault against a yoga guru, India’s yoga establishment needs to realign its guru-as-god philosophy that gives the guru unfettered power over his students
HEALTH-AND-FITNESS
The Whole Truth | Why we need the woo-woo
Wellness influencers drive the idea of an active, positive pursuit organised around the self — a luxury in the strictest sense.
ENTERTAINMENT
Pre-Historic Planet 2 series review: Bye, bye Jurassic Park
How Apple TV’s series 'Pre-Historic Planet 2' redefines the nature documentary, dino dramas and our imagination of the mighty raptor.
ENTERTAINMENT
Tribute: 'Simply the Best' singer Tina Turner was an attitude, not just a pop & rock 'n roll icon
For ’70s children, the zenith of pop iconism was Michael Jackson and Madonna, but the pop, rock & roll, and soul voice with a raspy contralto and feminist vim belonged to Tina Turner.
HEALTH-AND-FITNESS
The Whole Truth | The secret to success is in small wins every day, Luke Coutinho attests
What a new book of Indian holistic nutrition by lifestyle guru Luke Coutinho and the world’s most anticipated wellness trends report have in common.
ART
How Shilpa Gupta’s artistic journey makes her ready for the AI storm
A new exhibition and two books on her — the poster artist of Indian contemporary art outside of India, Shilpa Gupta’s journey & works imbued with a quality of mediation, through words, technology, sound, ready her for the AI-revolutionised art world.
ENTERTAINMENT
Manipur’s culture takes centre stage with Aribam Syam Sharma’s ‘Ishanou’ at 76th Cannes Film Festival
Aribam Syam Sharma’s ‘Ishanou’, written by Northeast’s literary stalwart MK Binodini Devi, returned to Cannes after 32 years as a world classic, screened on May 19, turning the spotlight to culturally evolved Manipur and its writers and artistes.
ENTERTAINMENT
‘Dahaad’ review | Guns, genre, gender: A sharp thriller on psychopathy and crimes against women
The new web series ‘Dahaad’ on Amazon Prime Video is as much about the dissolving borders between masculinity and caste or feminism and caste as about a heinous crime solved.
HEALTH-AND-FITNESS
The Whole Truth | ChatGPT is collecting my work, but it's got me entirely wrong
Do not AI: In the AI-bolstered world, digital wellness would have to be more about protecting intellectual and creative property rights.
LUXURY-LIFESTYLE
The pearl update: History, royalty, climate change, vintage elegance and rejigged vintage
How a lustrous drop of calcium carbonate wreathes it all in.
ENTERTAINMENT
A new Priyanka Chopra in a ‘Citadel’ of her own
‘Citadel’ has all the spy thriller clichés — the most uninspired of Russo Brothers gigs. The best thing about the Amazon Prime Video series: Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and her real Hollywood moment.
ENTERTAINMENT
Broadway in Bombay: The Von Trapps come to Mumbai’s Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre
What the NMACC means to performing arts in India and what to expect from The Grand Theatre’s May attraction, ‘The Sound of Music’ from Broadway, and an exclusive interview with the actors.
ENTERTAINMENT
Japanese film ‘Suzume’ at PVR: An evening with anime master Makoto Shinkai
India’s anime fan base is dead serious, and both Shinkai and his India distributor PVR Pictures know
HEALTH-AND-FITNESS
The Whole Truth | Take the moral science out of wellness
The world is suddenly so obsessed with individual wellness that if you choose not to “fix” yourself, you’re an irresponsible nihilist.
ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes Film Festival 2023: Kanu Behl’s ‘Agra’ and what it ‘feels’ to be a sexually repressed man
Kanu Behl’s second feature film ‘Agra’, to be screened at this year’s Cannes Director’s Fortnight, is about the intricate inner hustles of a sexually repressed young man in matchbox urban spaces of new India
TRENDS
From The Romantics to Jubilee, why Bollywood is on a nostalgia trip in 2023
Vikramaditya Motwane’s ‘Jubilee’, the Amazon Prime Video series about the heady early years of Bombay cinema, and two non-fiction Netflix titles whet the appetite for our shared love of Bollywood, bypassing the exasperation and ugliness
TRENDS
From The Romantics to Jubilee, Bollywood is on a nostalgia trip in 2023
Vikramaditya Motwane’s series ‘Jubilee’ about the heady early years of Bombay cinema on Amazon Prime Video and two non-fiction Netflix titles this year whet the appetite for our shared love of Bollywood, bypassing the exasperation and the ugliness.
TRENDS
HBO’s India departure: What OTT universe doesn’t want Home Box Office?
You have five days to binge-watch ‘Succession’ Season 4, one of India’s Oscar favourites this year and many other top-notch HBO properties. What the end of Disney+ Hotstar’s deal with HBO means and the shows to watch before they’re taken off
TRENDS
‘Bheed’ review: Compassion meets passion in Anubhav Sinha’s charged, crushing march of the migrant
The Rajkummar Rao-starrer, Sinha’s new film on the migrant crisis during the pandemic, is a stinging reminder of the worst of human suffering.
TRENDS
'Zwigato' Review | The new ‘majdoor’ in digital India
In their lead roles, Kapil Sharma and Nandita Das keep Das’s slice-of-life film interesting even when Das’s politics is overt and her storytelling inert.
HEALTH-AND-FITNESS
Who needs Vitamin D3 and Magnesium tablets, and how to pick the right supplements for you?
Does a healthy adult or child need supplements to maintain or boost health? The functional medicine pros have some solid answers
