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Oscars 2023: The Asian moment in Hollywood has been a long time coming
‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ winning all the top awards finally puts the spotlight on Asian talent in Hollywood and America. It also helps prop up the Academy’s image as being pro-diversity.
ENTERTAINMENT
Have we entered the age of 'theramedy' with the shows we watch?
If you binge-watch Hollywood family dramas, you know the therapist or at least going to the therapist to fix yourselves of evil things like 'toxicity' and 'enmeshment', is the new hero.
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What’s different about brand Deepika Padukone
Being Oscar presenter is the least — and slightest — of Deepika Padukone’s achievements in the last year. In 2022, she became the most global of Indian celebrity brands; the dream run continues.
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'All That Breathes' and the evolution of the Oscars documentary feature category
What the attention to ‘All That Breathes’ means for documentary filmmaking in India and the world.
HEALTH-AND-FITNESS
The Whole Truth: A secret to happier and healthier middle age
Review of a new book on perimenopause, the biggest mid-life hitch. It is different from menopause.
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BAFTAs 2023: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ wins big
The German-language anti-war movie received seven awards including Best Picture and Best Director, a record for a foreign film.
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Kartik Aaryan's unimaginative 'boy next door' persona needs some serious disruption
A good place to start might be to look at films that make Kartik Aaryan a part of their cinematic universe rather than building the universe of the film around a star.
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'The Night Manager' review: All swag, no John le Carré
Based on one of le Carré’s more populist spy novels, Sandeep Modi’s adaptation of the British series has slick production but hard-to-buy plot twists—a crime thriller without anything new to say about evil.
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Gandhys of Chemould: A biography and a documentary train the lens on the first family of Mumbai's art world
A biography by Jerry Pinto and a personal documentary by Behroze Gandhy on the Gandhys, their abode Kekee Manzil, and what it says about the intersection of engaged citizenry and art.
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Netflix docuseries The Romantics review | The great Bollywood romantic bubble
Netflix’s new docu-series on Yash Raj Films shows how far Hindi romances moved to the boy-girl-wedding formula after Yash Chopra’s nuanced and lyrical take on love and relationships.
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'The Whale' Review | Darren Aronofsky's Oscars winner Brendan Fraser body and mind show is a stifling wonder
Regret, grief and overeating weigh down the character Brendan Fraser plays in his Oscar-winning role in Darren Aronofsky’s latest film. The psychological drama bagged two Oscars at the 95th Academy Awards.
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Class director Ashim Ahluwalia: 'It felt natural to set the series in Delhi, where the rich and poor are physically separated unlike in Mumbai'
'Miss Lovely' and 'Daddy' director on adapting the Spanish ‘Elite’ for his new Netflix web-series, 'Class', Gen-Z shows in India, and complex class-caste interactions defining Indian teenagers even today.
HEALTH-AND-FITNESS
The Whole Truth: Are millets really good for you?
Right now, the food retail market has a flood of products made with processed millets. Can the brouhaha around this wonder grain take us to a health and agricultural utopia?
HEALTH-AND-FITNESS
World Cancer Day 2023 | Precision oncology is not a cancer test or drug, it's an orientation: Dr Sewanti Limaye
On World Cancer Day today, a conversation with Dr Sewanti Limaye, Director, Precision Oncology, HN Reliance Hospital and Research Centre, on the new frontiers of cancer treatment in India.
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Pathaan film review: Shah Rukh Khan’s crackerjack action hero debut at 57
It took a James Bond rehash for Bollywood to produce its sharpest action film. The SRK twist is that this desi Bond triumphantly flags a love-thy-neighbour credo.
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Can ‘Pathaan’ be a new first for Shah Rukh Khan?
The love is twisted this time. And the Bond-style patriotism is over-the-top. How much can an old-world Khan woo us in the new world?
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The Whole Truth | Big machines in wellness centres, a new draw for the health-conscious
The new glow and heal menu in Indian cities is a high-pressure oxygen chamber and nutrient concoctions pumped into the body.
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Kuttey film review: Tabu manages to shine as jaded cop, even in a half-baked film with pointless gore
Vishal Bhardwaj's son Aasmaan Bhardwaj makes his director-writer debut with Kuttey - obviously inspired by Quentin Tarantino's films in structure and treatment.
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Golden Globes 2023: The Golden Globes did its usual ‘naatu’
After two years of controversies, the tide should have turned for the Hollywood Foreign Press. It didn’t really, although our blockbuster ‘RRR’ rightly lost to 'Argentina, 1985', in this year’s tepid ceremony.
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India's Films Division, NFAI and DFF are gone. Can the new NFDC support and inspire great cinema?
No film culture has thrived without government support. What does the Indian government’s move to shut down four premier government-run film institutions in 2022 mean for the ecosystem?
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Why we love souvenirs like fridge magnets
Conversation starter or gloat point, hoarder mentality or just a way to relive joy—the fridge magnet is a quaint equivalent of the selfie and also its apt antidote.
HEALTH-AND-FITNESS
Yearender 2022 | 5 must-read health and wellness books
From Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Song of the Cell to Bitter-Sweet by Susan Cain, essential reading on health and wellness.
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Review | Rohit Shetty and Ranveer Singh's 'Cirkus' is a loose circuit
Ranveer Singh gets into bawdy physical comedy mode in a Rohit Shetty version of ‘Comedy of Errors’, with a nature versus nurture message forced into the story.
TRAVEL-TRENDS
Travel features | Getting lost in and around Shillong, Meghalaya
The ‘Scotland of the East’ moniker, a colonial hangover, is history. What Shillong was 20 years ago can be now found in its squeaky clean, unhurried peripheries
