Kaveree Bamzai

Celebrity reality shows work if their subjects are either fabulously crass or fabulously classy. Streaming services have some answers but does the genre have legs at a time when the pandemic has leashed even our fantasies?

New laws and the pandemic have changed ideas of masculinity and society’s expectations of men. Are they up for it?

Rajkummar Rao glimpses the next level of stardom with a buzzworthy performance as the urbane yet deeply compromised elitist in the movie based on Aravind Adiga’s novel The White Tiger

Satyajit Ray and Soumitra Chatterjee showed what it is to be a man in modern India

From his debut as an adult Apu, Soumitra Chatterjee taught generations of Bengalis, especially the men, how to be at home in the world

Harshad Mehta, the stockbroker who made greed good for Indians and took the fall for it, is back in favour

Whether he is the beloved Guddu Bhaiya in Mirzapur or the updated Cousin Andrew in Kenneth Branagh’s forthcoming Death on the Nile, Ali Fazal is showing us how to be a global star

That was the frequent lament of the women onscreen whenever Sean Connery's 007 appeared. More often than not, it was justified

One of India’s most romanticised streets in history is being restored and given back to pedestrians

What makes us who we are? Increasingly in popular culture it is who we are opposed to