By Anamika Chatterjee

Would you leave your partner if he were to slap you just once? Not out of a warped sense of humour, but a strong sense of entitlement. As I first saw the trailer of Anubhav Sinha’s Thappad, I turned to a friend to probe into her thoughts on the same. She felt that while the act itself would tear her apart, she would certainly dig deep to understand what led her partner to raise his hand in the first place. Made sense; after all, love cannot be a casualty of a slap, I told her. Sinha’s film is a gentle nudge to that notion.

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By Sandhya D’Mello

My interest in watching the  Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Athiya Shetty starrer Motichoor Chaknachoor had been building up ever since I saw promos of  the Hindi movie on TV.  The film was released last November and it was a busy month for me, hence I could not watch it on the big screen. I was patiently waiting for some kind soul to upload a ‘watchable’ print on YouTube. But to my luck, Netflix announced that it would be streaming the movie. 

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By Keith Pereña

Picture this: An eight-year-old boy and his brother are sitting in front of the television watching three black Honda Civics on screen. The identical cars swarm a cargo truck to steal its contents and disappear into the dead of the night. Their ‘Spoon engines’ are the only sound that echoes in the solitary freeway. For my brother and I, and to pretty much every kid back in the early 2000s, this was their introduction to the action flick  The Fast and the Furious (F&F), and the ‘tuner car’ culture that it spearheaded.

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By Rohma Sadaqat

What do you do when something that formed an integral part of your childhood re-emerges 25 years later? Well, you go and watch it, of course.

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By Rohma Sadaqat

Assume that when people think about the Pink Panther, there are a few things that immediately pop up in their minds. There is, of course, the fact that you are looking at an animated panther who walks upright and is a stunning shade of pink.

Continue reading What’s hot dogs got to do with Pink Panther? →