Bollywood America

Rang de Basanti  (2006), which linked India's past struggle against British colonialism to India's present struggle against corrupt...

Women in the Jail  Before there was Orange is the New Black there was  Bandini (1963), a graceful film about a rural woman's expe...

Sometimes the trailer says it all: "A Terrible Study in Suspense!" It may well have been one of India's first suspense t...

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi  (2008): the smiling face of misogyny. I n addition to the overt misogyny of “ grab ‘em by the pussy, " it is ...

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” -Oscar Wilde The Dir...

The most famous feminist judgement of film is the Bechdel test , which asks if a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to ...

Devdas , written by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay and published in 1917 in Kolkata, is one of the classics of Indian literature. It has been...

Sridevi as Sashi English Vinglish (2012) is celebration of women, cosmopolitanism, and compassion, and is a great film to watch duri...

A City Gate in Lucknow   Reviewing Umrao Jaan (1981), like Sholay (1975) or Mughal-e-Azim (1960) feels a bit like reviewing Citize...