Reading Time: 3 minutes Composer Rahul Dev Burman stirs a simmering maternal pot to ensure feelings bubble up just with the right velocity at the right time, bursting with pain before you get a chance to fully ensconce them in your aching bosom.
Category Archive: Appraisal
Reading Time: 6 minutes A sampling of what I’ve watched this year. Spoiler: most of the content is 2021 residue.
Reading Time: 5 minutes The top movies of 2021.
Reading Time: 6 minutes From the splash of acid to acidic wit, from a hyperkinetic trial to virtual thrills, from old-fashioned murder to bloody folklore, 2020 movies slapped it all on.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Rahul Dev Burman creates an angstful question that drowns in melodic sorrow. A question that’s for our times, and also for and on his behalf.
Reading Time: 5 minutes The top TV shows for 2020, the year where even the fact that you could watch TV was a top reason to be on the top list.
Reading Time: 4 minutes The top TV shows of 2019.
Reading Time: 4 minutes The top ten movies of 2019.
Reading Time: 3 minutes On Kishore Kumar’s birthday, on this Friendship day, and on Pancham day (which happens to be every day), it’s time to toast and cut the cake.
Reading Time: < 1 minute A snazzily romantic, tense number from ‘Raksha’ revisited (and rewritten). Happy birthday, Pancham.