On the Feast of Our Lady of the Mount, a look at how Manmohan Desai turned Mount Mary in Bandra and Don Bosco in Matunga into one cinematic church, and why that piece of Bombay movie geography has followed me all my life. There are certain places in Bombay that transcend geography. They are addresses, certainly, but they are also repositories. Of memory. Of community. Of faith. Of cinema. Of generations who may never have known one another but who have climbed the same steps,

Bhuvan Bam’s arrival as Rash Behari Bose in Prime Video’s The Revolutionaries looks spectacular when viewed from 2026. Look backwards, however, and the supposed overnight success dissolves into ten years, billions of views, hundreds of uploads, failed auditions, songs, characters, experiments, production risks and an audience patiently carried from one medium into another. There is a rather extraordinary photograph hiding in plain sight in the story of Bhuvan Bam. On one side

DAG's 'Faces and Facets: Satyajit Ray in Colour' opens at Mumbai's Taj Mahal Palace on September 10, showcasing Nemai Ghosh's rare colour images of the auteur.

TikTok is obsessed with futuristic chrome dining plates, but desi households have been doing it for decades. Here’s why the thali is the ultimate aesthetic. Discover the trend.

A video titled 'Unstoppable Tukaram' is going viral out of Pune this month, showing an entire auditorium at Bal Gandharva Ranga Mandir rising to its feet as one man walks in. That man is Tukaram Mundhe, Maharashtra's Food and Drug Administration commissioner, and the moment has cemented a nickname that's followed him for over a decade: IAS Singham, after the fictional, incorruptible cop played by Ajay Devgn in Bollywood's Singham franchise. Unlike most viral bureaucrat moment

As India races towards Viksit Bharat 2047, an old political argument is acquiring a remarkably modern workforce. The factory proletarian has become the software engineer, the union hall has entered the technology park, and Bangalore may be where Indian socialism discovers its fifth-industrial-revolution constituency. There is something deliciously contradictory happening in Bangalore. The great Indian city of venture capital, software exports, artificial intelligence, semicon

From Alaya F's minimal Bali aesthetic to Sara Ali Khan's postcard confidence and Khushi Kapoor's flirty prints, here's how Bollywood's younger stars do beach style.

So Abraham Maslow sat down in 1943 and drew a triangle. Bottom layer: food, water, shelter. The stuff you actually die without. Then safety. Then belonging. Then esteem. And right at the top, glowing like a boss level nobody ever unlocks, self actualisation. Becoming the fullest version of yourself. The final form. The whole thing worked on one rule: you climb in order. No skipping. You cannot want purpose while you are hungry. You cannot chase meaning while you are scared. E

Before Bigg Boss clips started taking over Instagram, reality TV already had India in a chokehold. We had TRPs. Voting lines. Newspaper debates. Family arguments over contestants. And that one person who would insist they "don't watch Bigg Boss" while somehow knowing exactly what happened in the previous episode. So when Gen Z started obsessing over Indian reality TV again, it looked like a new phenomenon. It really isn't. From Bigg Boss and Roadies to Lock Upp, Splitsvilla,

When discussing Indian classic erotic literature, the Kama Sutra often dominates the conversation. However, the Ananga Ranga, a beautiful piece of text composed in the late 15th or early 16th century by Kalyana Malla, offers profound insights into relationships. Written not merely as a manual of physical techniques, the Ananga Ranga serves as a comprehensive guide to sustaining affection and harmony within a marriage. What Does "Ananga Ranga" Mean? Understanding the title pro

A throwback photo of Nushrratt Bharuccha at the Rocket Gang event has resurfaced online. Here's why her look is getting fresh attention.

Helen, Nadira and Aruna Irani defined old Hindi cinema's vamp, but never got the lead role. Here's why Bollywood built the trope that way.

For decades, one criticism has followed Indian cinema wherever it has travelled. “It is over the top.” Actors are supposedly too expressive. Faces reveal too much. Emotions are worn too openly. Joy is exuberant, grief is overwhelming, love is unapologetic and anger is unmistakable. This criticism is repeated so frequently that it has acquired the appearance of objective truth. Yet I would argue that it tells us far less about Indian cinema than it does about the assumptions e

LEGO's first Mumbai store opened at R City Mall, Ghatkopar with a world-record 738,000-brick mosaic and a Dabbawala made of 29,000 pieces. What it actually means.

It's an animated sequel about a boy who can control the wind. It's also, if you squint even slightly, one of the more coherent essays on the responsible use of power that's hit a screen this year. Avatar rang: The Last Airbender, now streaming, isn't just fan service dressed up in gorgeous animation — underneath the reunion-special warmth is a story that keeps handing its characters, and by extension its audience, hard questions about what to do once you actually have power.

In Mumbai’s fast-paced dining scene, creating a restaurant that people actually talk about takes far more than good food—it requires a story. At just 25 years old, Samantha Noronha has emerged as one of the key creative forces behind the city’s newest culinary hot spots. Once recognized as one of the leading faces on Mumbai Foodie—the person behind the viral Instagram Reels that caused endless queues across town—Noronha has moved from fronting content to building brands from

Hindi cinema does not write characters. It assigns them. We have spent decades politely calling it creative liberty, brushing aside the repetitive tropes of the corrupt local politician or the hyper-sexualised Christian secretary as the byproducts of lazy screenwriting. But lazy writing is accidental. A half-century of perfectly consistent demographic stereotyping is not an accident; it is a system. In a definitive analysis of Hindi films spanning from 1960 to 2010, IIM Ahmed

Most viral clips have a shelf life. A hot take gets its 48 hours of outrage, then the algorithm moves on to the next thing. The clip of Naseeruddin Shah calling Anupam Kher a clown in a 2020 interview with The Wire has not followed that pattern. It has resurfaced repeatedly for six years, most recently in 2026, and it's worth actually breaking down why, because the mechanics say more about how internet outrage works than about either actor. The first reason is structural: the

There is no press release for the moment a real feud ends. No joint statement, no coordinated photo op, no carefully worded olive branch drafted by a publicist. If Anupam Kher's telling is accurate, the six-year rift with Naseeruddin Shah ended the way most real reconciliations do: unplanned, at a funeral, in two words. The setting was the memorial service for H.D. Pathak, a chartered accountant who had worked with both actors over the years, the kind of shared professional c

New to this one? Here's the entire Anupam Kher-Naseeruddin Shah saga in five quick hits, no six-year archive dive required. 1. It started with a CAA interview, not a personal spat The whole thing traces back to January 2020, when Naseeruddin Shah spoke to The Wire about the anti-CAA protests and praised Deepika Padukone's JNU visit. Asked about industry figures backing the government, he named Kher directly, calling him a clown and a sycophant. 2. Kher didn't just clap back,