New Delhi, Oct. 24 -- The most enduring Hindi film of all, Sholay, is a symphony of vendettas and villains, yet amid the dust and dynamite, there stands Asrani like a misplaced vaudeville act, a chara... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 16 -- Who would not fall in love with Diane Keaton? The Annie Hall heroine was muse to the film's director, Woody Allen, who made eight films with her and remained devoted to her, dec... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- Do you remember The Three Investigators? Those slim detective novels we read as children featured enthusiastic young sleuths falling into cases more complicated and sinister than ... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 3 -- Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, currently in theatres, is the most acclaimed American film of 2025. It is a tour de force packed with great performances, not leas... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- Back in 2007 when Farah Khan made Om Shanti Om, I had described the film as an award ceremony minus the awards: a series of in-jokes and celebrity-heavy sketches stitched around... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 18 -- Robert Redford is out of breath. That beautiful man has just walked up six unexpected flights of stairs to his New York apartment and he is positively winded, far too tired to s... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 12 -- Fifteen years ago, when I first started writing a regular column for a newspaper, the most poetic response came from the filmmaker Sudhir Mishra. He told me he was looking forwa... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 6 -- Richard Osman's bestselling series of novels The Thursday Murder Club deserved a great adaptation, and the first book actually got one. It's just that it wasn't on screen. I con... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- James Bond is dead. Not only on screen-although the last of the Daniel Craig outings, No Time To Die, was indeed a weepie that killed him-but the character himself is now a perfe... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 21 -- My comfort-food show these days happens to be a sitcom from the 1990s. Over the years, I'd caught reruns of Mad About You-starring Paul Reiser and the incomparable Helen Hunt-but... Read More