It is a fact that we laugh hardest at others’ moments of failure. Hera Pheri is a story of three men who constantly struggle to make things right, but fail everytime, producing moments of ridicule and maddening laughter. The film epitomised situational comedy and set a benchmark for comedy films that still hasn’t been breached […]

1947: Earth is a part of an elements trilogy by Indo-Canadian director Deepa Mehta. Each of the three films, Fire, Earth, and Water, have unrelated storylines, but the narration of each film is hard-hitting and intrusive. Earth captures the horrors of India’s most tragic historical event and the permanent imprint it leaves on the personalities

Satya wasn’t the first gangster film of Bollywood, but it was the first film to dive deeper into the realities of Mumbai’s local gangs than any of its glorified predecessors. Satya or truth, is not just the protagonist’s name, but is a take on the word’s meaning in a vortex of circumstances. Though the story

It took one of India’s most skilled directors to give the nation an insight into the fragility of youth in times of turmoil. The film is set in a volatile Punjab in the aftermath of ‘Operation Blue Star’ and narrates the story of Kripaal (Chandrachur Singh), who joins an extremist group, driven by the angst

If there is one film that defines the ‘New Age Bollywood’ its DDLJ. No other film in the last three decades has had a greater impact on the audience and the industry itself than this quintessential Bollywood romance. Bollywood’s ‘longest running film ever’ sold dreams of romance to a young nation, at a time when

The bosom of our ageing motherland is replete with stories of attrition, transformation, and retribution, but very few have risen to shock and awe the nation in the way the story of Phoolan Devi did. Shekar Kapur’s film on the life of a downtrodden woman turned bandit turned politician shocked the viewers by simply telling

Finding a millennial who hasn’t seen this film is as difficult as finding a better comedy film in Bollywood. Most jokes lose their potency or the punch upon repetition, but this film doesn’t seem to have that problem because there are no punches. Interaction of the characters with situations is so constant and unfailingly comical

This Aamir Khan starrer was Bollywood’s first successful sports drama and is still one of the finest films in this genre. Though the film used the recurring Bollywood theme of the tussle between ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ of the Indian society, its merger with the schooling system was fresh, and provided a wonderful battleground for