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Movies
‘The Whale’ Is a Horror Film That Taps Into Our Fear of Fatness
In a thin-obsessed culture, fatness has become its own kind of monster.
Even as Godse is Celebrated, ‘Gandhi Zinda Hai!’
It is easy to despair at times like these, but as long as there are schools, teachers and parents determined to talk about constitutional values, democracy has a fighting chance.
RRR’s Abuse and Distortion of History Is Vulgar
The movie was everything I expected it to be: extremely well made and lavishly mounted. The story was absurd and the distance from reality was of solar proportions.
How Edgar Allan Poe Became the Darling of the Maligned and Misunderstood
Is the writer’s appeal less about the power and complexity of his prose, and more about the view of him as a perennial underdog?
Indian Students’ Screenings of BBC’s Modi Documentary Despite Ban Make Global Headlines
The Union government ordered YouTube and Twitter to remove video links of the documentary, and university administrations in various varsities have been denying students permission to screen the film.
With Pathaan, Shahrukh Gives His Fans What They’ve Been Missing All These Years
The movie tells its story in a dramatic register without scoring cheap political points or using its star as a crutch.