After I saw the much awaited movie ‘Fashion’, I said to myself “Madhur Bhandarkar, you missed it!!!” The movie couldn’t raise an issue which every fashion freak is obsessed with, that is the ‘size-zero’ factor. Priyanka who looked quite sluggish on the ‘Fashion-ramp’ slashed out at ‘size-zero’ trend in order to defend herself before … Continue reading
Salaam-Namaste… Apart from being a blockbuster for the Yashraj banners, the film also gave Indian society a new taboo to talk and fear about: live-in relationships. A country where the condom-condom ad took years to be aired following a decade long debate over the ill-effect it may have on the society, live-in was absolutely a … Continue reading
The mammoth population is nothing short of an additional burden on the stooping back of our country with high power aspirations. We were the first nation to evolve a government backed programme in the 1950s when the rest of the world was unaware of the issue. During the notorious reign of ‘Sanjay Gandhi’, the government … Continue reading
Reading the newspaper with the morning cuppa I came across the recent ruling by the court in which the biological parents were granted the custody of the child after the women (whom I will address as Karma mother) who has been taking care of the child refused to handover the child back to his biological … Continue reading
I get usually agitated when people say that women in Bollywood are depicted in the realm of myth and fantasy. All the art forms emerge in a social context and they reflect the realities of those times. In the same manner, films are nothing but a replica of the society. We generally want our expectation … Continue reading