Raja Sen lists his favourite moments.
Acclaimed movies, hit movies, social movies, star-studded movies, scary movies and shows galore, you certainly won't be starved for entertainment on OTT this week.
Lovingly made, heartfelt stories that speak the truths about our lives.
'I believe FFI has made a mistake,' notes Aseem Chhabra.
'Find a name that changes the words honor killing and hopefully it includes the word murder.' 'If you use the words, you are trying to justify the murders.'
'We need to understand and respect wildlife behaviour.'
The fact that Gehlot has stayed relevant these five years with his populist schemes is one reason why he may beat incumbency in a state that votes for change every election, observes Ramesh Menon.
At this year's TIME ball in New York City on Thursday, April 25, you would have run into a Coimbatore-born American scientist, looking lovely in Sabyasachi Mukherjee designer finery, who would most likely have been hanging out with Dua Lipa.
'He killed so many people, doing the kind of horrible things he did, and yet, he believed he was making the right choices.'
Bana Alabed's tweets from war-torn Syria made a world numbed by the violence care again.
Any move of the present government to appease the Marathas may boomerang. Eknath Shinde is a worried man with the agitation not having an easy solution, notes Ramesh Menon.
Modi wants the BJP to gets an additional 10% of the vote share from what it won in 2019. Plans are afoot to get new faces to replace MPs with poor chances of winning. Sources say more than 100 MPs are like to be axed, notes Modi biographer Ramesh Menon.
England Test captain Ben Stokes is very categorical that his participation in the IPL 2023 will depend on the national team's calendar.
RRR threw a lifeline, or so it seemed -- to a world that was down in the dumps. Keeravani and his Naatu Naatu just happened to be in the right place at the right time, notes Saibal Chatterjee.
'It started with an image of a father and son riding a bike on a winter morning.'
As 2022 readies to bid adieu, Sukanya Verma raises a toast to the 10 high points of the year.
'Or because I am getting a s**tload of money.'
Find out more about interesting films and Web series coming up on OTT this month.
Joaquin Phoenix-starrer Joker, one of the most controversial yet admired movies of 2019, is leading the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) nominations with 11 nods.
You'll need extra eyes for the amount of OTT content available this week. Sukanya Verma invites you to take your pick.
'The Iranians are very resilient people. So even when they are throttled, they try their best to survive.'
Aseem Chhabra gives us the top films that enriched his year.
Introducing UCC is a challenging task for any government. The complexities are real and difficult to negotiate as it deals with sensitive religious and cultural sentiments. How can it strike an easy balance between individual rights and community interests?, asks Ramesh Menon.
'Given that they are playing at home and will have full crowd support, India, who are in peak form and whose morale is high, will be the favourites.'
Aseem Chhabra presents his list of 10 international films that mattered to him, stories that he connected with and characters that gave him a better understanding of the human condition.
It will be a documentary, to be directed by Mani Shankar.
Break Point is an emotional ride into Indian tennis' ultimate fairytale gone wrong, observes Deepti Patwardhan.
Sudipto Sen, the lone Indian in the jury board of the just-concluded International Film Festival of India, Saturday maintained that the remarks made by Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid about The Kashmir Files were his personal opinion even as three other co-jurors came out in support of the jury head.
'Till a cheque comes into my account, I don't feel like a professional actor.'
Governors must be impartial, fair, and above narrow politics to uphold the values and spirit of the Constitution. But in a rapidly changing political culture where the unstated rule is to crush the Opposition, such values have no meaning. At stake are Constitutional values, federalism and governance, asserts Ramesh Menon.
Aseem Chhabra lists 10 of his favourite films that played in various sections at the 74th Cannes Film Festival.
Joginder Tuteja looks at the 10 Best Action Thrillers.
'The response to savagery and mass injustice is never a persistent howl.' 'There will be, among the victims, those who choose to forget the scars, those who go on living, those who challenge the overall environment of sentimentality.' 'And the more effort you put into including these other voices, into assimilating these spoilsports, the more balanced your depiction of the tragedy in question will be,' observes Sreehari Nair.
Dekh Indian Circus and Gattu impress and pick up awards at the New York Indian Film Festival.
The Rumble in the Jungle was the greatest boxing spectacle of the 20th century, notes Dhruv Munjal.
The dinner Jill Biden and her husband US President Joe Biden hosted for Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, June 22, at the White House brought together, Indians and Americans from so many firmaments.
National award-winning director Pradeep Maadugala talks about Advaitam and much more
A quick look at the Oscar 2016 nominations.
He was being treated for liver cancer.
