Bollywood

It’s Rocket Science

Kaveree Bamzai

Rocket Boys will do for space what Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story did for the stock market

Tragedy Queens

They embodied freedom and blazed a new trail. Yet the divas who defined the seventies were touched by misfortune and ravaged by love. A new generation wants to know why

The Corona Screen Test

Kaveree Bamzai

The industry needs to use this period to introspect, to see what the post-Covid-lockdown audience wants to watch

Some Transparency, Please

Kaveree Bamzai

The space for the small films and the weaker voice remains limited

The Deepika Era

Kaveree Bamzai

With her undeniable beauty and greater depth to her acting, there is no reason why Padukone’s career as a leading lady shouldn’t last longer

The Indian Pastoral

Rachel Dwyer

The cinematic evolution of the countryside sends out a social message

You Khan’t Touch Them

Kaveree Bamzai

Aamir Khan has given up his mobile phone

At 49, she considers it a great privilege to be asked to play her age onscreen. Pooja Bhatt, feisty teen idol and magazine cover magnet of the 1990s, is back, headlining one of this summer’s biggest streaming series