Celebrity skincare is the new celebrity perfume. It’s the new, dumb, ubiquitous trend that every vapid celebrity in recent years is cashing in on. As a result, the market is now saturated with substandard, overpriced face crap fronted by dermatologically… Continue Reading
Jahnvi Kapoor is a tour de force. Fuck all of you idiots for making fun of her.
Karan Johar’s Andy Cohen-esque Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives came out when the world needed it the most, in 2020, the world’s annus horribilus. When death, sickness and panic gripped the entire world, people needed to switch off. Some turned… Continue Reading
Netflix’s Delhi Crime is the best show India has ever produced. There is nothing comparable to it and there probably never will be. It’s relentlessly outstanding. Season one shed a blinding light on the ongoing Delhi rape epidemic. It was… Continue Reading
It’s always cause for celebration whenever audiences see Desi women or just women of colour being placed center stage and sharing their stories on a global platform. In an alleged post-racial world, it sadly remains a rare sight. Only a… Continue Reading
I have yet to finish an episode of the yuppie drivel that is Masaba Masaba, a show with as much depth and substance as a TikTok video. The show is the absolute worst. But I digress. Stand with Kashmir, an… Continue Reading
If there’s anyone in the Hindi film industry who never ceases to surprise audiences, it’s Alia Bhatt. This is her first foray into producing and fuck did she deliver; Darlings is one of the most stridently fresh films to come… Continue Reading
Fans of the Harry Potter movies will remember the now successful actor, Alfred Enoch, as the black kid who always stood in the background and rarely, if ever, spoke. Despite appearing in the majority of the franchise’s eight films, Enoch… Continue Reading
Gangubai Kathiawadi is a softly, quietly powerful film. It astutely ebbs and flows through the gamut of elements of Nouveau Masala, through subtlety and grandiloquence, despondency and romance, comedy and drama. Alia Bhatt chews up the screen with a superfluous… Continue Reading
Let me preface this by saying that there is no one who is a more adoring fan of Shakun Batra’s first two films than me. I even listed Ekk Main Aurr Ekk Tu as the best film of the 2010s.… Continue Reading