Growing up in a family mad about Bollywood songs, one realises that their life has been blessed with a soundtrack. Whenever core memories replay themselves in the brain, there is an accompanying soundtrack, one that is rather hard to mute. Growing up in the 80s and 90s, but with my musical tastes inspired by my grandparents, parents, uncles, aunts and cousins, I found myself appreciating the playback singing legends of their times as much as a reasonable dose of kitsch from m

Image by Petra from Pixabay Every September 5th, India celebrates Teachers’ Day, honoring the people who shape minds and guide us...

Enter Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003) and Dostana (2008). They weren’t queer love stories, not really, but they did something important. They cracked open the door to conversations. Through jokes, misunderstandings, and plenty of Dharma-level charm, these films brought the idea of queerness out of the shadows and into the drawing room. Families laughed, squirmed, debated.

The day I landed in Germany for a month-long exchange program, I knew I had to visit the Deutsches FilmInstitut & Filmmuseum (DFF) in...

We call ourselves Breakfast@Cinema in an ode to Blake Edwards’ 1961 film, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, loosely adapted from Truman Capote’s...