What Vidya Balan’s sexy purr in ‘Tumhari Sulu’ tells us about Hindi film heroines and their voices

Vidya Balan’s radio jockey in the November 24 release is the latest screen character to exercise her vocal chords in the service of the plot.

Damini Kulkarni

· an hour ago

An Urdu poet, her activist niece, and two faces of rebellion at Lucknow’s Farangi Mahal

Uma Chakravarti’s ‘Ek Inquilab Aur Aaya’, which is showing at the Public Service Broadcasting Trust documentary festival, is a chronicle of lives less ordinary.

Damini Kulkarni

· Sep 18, 2017 · 09:45 am

In photos: A Jitendra Arya exhibition captures a budding film industry and a changing nation

A selection of the photographer’s eclectic oeuvre will be displayed at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Mumbai from September 2 to October 8.

Damini Kulkarni

· Sep 02, 2017 · 03:30 pm

Cooler than your selfie stick: This Mumbai couple is shooting glamorous, nostalgic family portraits

Some families brought their own traditional jewels and costumes. Others were unsure of how to tie a sari.

Damini Kulkarni

· Aug 29, 2017 · 03:30 pm

Waist management in Hindi film songs is a science unto itself

The female ‘kamar’ has an array of unpredictable and mostly inexplicable effects on men in the movies.

Damini Kulkarni

· Aug 29, 2017 · 01:30 pm

What happens when tour guides in films need guidance themselves?

While facilitating the self-discovery of others, guides often succumb to existential crises themselves, as the movies ‘Raja Hindustani’ and ‘Fanaa’ prove.

Damini Kulkarni

· Jul 31, 2017 · 08:15 am

Picture the song: ‘Aankhon Mein Teri’ too has a double role in ‘Om Shanti Om’

The song connects the previous birth of Shah Rukh Khan’s with his present in Farah Khan’s movie.

Damini Kulkarni

· Jul 24, 2017 · 01:30 pm

I have mom, but I need my dad too: Bollywood’s father hunger explained

Anurag Basu’s ‘Jagga Jasoos’ is the latest movie to explore the sometimes troubling and sometimes enriching father-son relationship.

Damini Kulkarni

· Jul 16, 2017 · 12:00 pm

What happens when a roomful of strangers read out their love letters to each other

In ‘The Reading Room’, Anuja Ghosalkar encourages audience members to share their personal correspondence with people they’ve never met before.

Damini Kulkarni

· Jul 04, 2017 · 03:30 pm

What the nose pin knows, and why Aamir Khan is wearing one

The importance of the piece of jewellery cannot be underestimated in the Hindi film universe (it is a marker of honour for one thing).

Damini Kulkarni

· Jun 22, 2017 · 03:00 pm

Question that drove film on 1984 anti-Sikh riots: ‘If we don’t talk about our history, who will?’

Teenaa Kaur Pasricha’s ‘1984, When The Sun Didn’t Rise’ revisits the aftermath of the Delhi riots that followed the assassination of Indira Gandhi.

Damini Kulkarni

· Jun 16, 2017 · 01:30 pm

Documentary ‘Ajaat’ is a rich history of Ganpati Maharaj’s efforts to set up a caste-free society

Director Arvind Gajanan Joshi finds that a revolution that had tremendous potential is unable to sustain its fervour.

Damini Kulkarni

· May 29, 2017 · 01:30 pm