Exclusive

Publication

Byline

Golden Globes 2026: 'One Battle After Another' is set to dominate awards season

New Delhi, Jan. 12 -- The 2026 Golden Globes featured a Leonardo DiCaprio joke. This is going to be a staple of every single award ceremony this year. A joke about age, or dating twentysomethings. DiC... Read More


From Aamir Khan to Gulzar, Sunil Grover is redefining the art of imitation

New Delhi, Jan. 10 -- Have you watched Sunil Grover play Aamir Khan? Week after week, Sunil Grover deconstructs a celebrity on The Great Indian Kapil Show (Netflix). In the latest episode, Grover, dr... Read More


'Pluribus' review: Vince Gilligan's show unfolds with novelistic self-assurance

New Delhi, Jan. 2 -- I am not Shakespeare. There can be no sentence that self-evident, and yet-after watching Pluribus-it bears mentioning. Pluribus, the sensational new Apple TV drama created by Bre... Read More


The 11 best TV shows this year

New Delhi, Dec. 26 -- 2025 has stumbled on. While the world around us-and the people in charge-may routinely disappoint, as the air becomes less breathable and the news bleaker, we do still have binge... Read More


Remembering 'This Is Spinal Tap', the best rock movie of all

New Delhi, Dec. 20 -- The 1984 masterpiece This is Spinal Tap-available to rent on Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video-is the best rock movie. In the film documenting the misadventures of fictional band S... Read More


'The Chair Company' review: Chaos merchant Tim Robinson mines his anxieties

New Delhi, Dec. 12 -- Chair man, of the bored You fall off a chair and your life falls apart. This is, more or less, the premise of The Chair Company, streaming in India on JioHotstar, but that soun... Read More


Keanu Reeves' incompetent angel elevates 'Good Fortune'

New Delhi, Dec. 6 -- There's something gloriously old fashioned about Good Fortune, Aziz Ansari's wholesome buddy comedy that dares to believe in the redemptive power of kindness in an economy designe... Read More


'A Man On The Inside' remains a warmly humanist series

New Delhi, Nov. 29 -- A Man On The Inside was one of Netflix's best shows last year. It was based on a delightful (and borderline unbelievable) Chilean documentary called The Mole Agent, created by th... Read More


Dharmendra was an outsized hero who made the movies larger

New Delhi, Nov. 28 -- He was the first person to give me an autograph. I was eight. I had handed Dharmendra a notebook with a novelty cover that made it look like a sandwich, and in his massive hand, ... Read More


Is the Kim Kardashian drama 'All's Fair' really that bad?

New Delhi, Nov. 20 -- It may seem like a soft target, I know, to go after a show that has received no positive reviews at all. You might well accuse me of piling on, of kicking a well-coiffed corpse t... Read More