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Pataakha is the Accurate Portrait of Sibling Rivalry Between Sisters We’ve...
By Aashika Ravi Badku and Chutku’s relationship is an MTV Roadies episode on drugs. Photo Courtesy: Still from Youtube Those of you who grew up in the nineties and were forcefully subjected to Sooraj...
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Ganesh Acharya, Tanushree Dutta And the Eternal Disco Dance of Male Solidarity
By Nisha Susan Choreographer Ganesh Acharya with actor Prabhu Deva You know that story? The one about that super senior Bollywood actor who greeted a woman journalist in his trailer by dropping his...
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9 Songs That Tell The Story Of My Life: Gulf Edition
By Aashika Ravi I have become somewhat of a Poo these days. Photo Courtesy: Still from K3G 9 Songs is an occasional series in which people mark major memories in their lives with the songs that...
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What Hindi Cinema Speaks About When It Speaks About Women: Part 2
By Aneela Z Babar Originally published on 7 MAy 2014. (Note: This is a two-part primer on Women in Hindi films. Part 1 elaborated on Women in Love and Family Politics in Hindi movies. For more jolly...
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What Hindi Cinema Speaks About When It Speaks About Women: Part 1
By Aneela Z. Babar Originally published on 6 May 2014. Earlier this year I had my very own ‘Madhuri Dixit moment’. After five years of being the “Bhabhi ji jinko thoda bahut interior decoration ka...
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‘Bollywood is Blindly Sexist the Way Our Fathers Are.’ Swara Bhaskar on Male...
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Ek Do Teen: Why Hate on Jacqueline Fernandez Because Item Numbers are Gross?
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In Praise of Sridevi’s Artifice
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Netflix’s First Hindi Film Gets How Badly Women Want to Own Property
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We May Have Cheered for Wonder Woman But There Were Fewer Female Protagonists...
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I Thought Padman Would be a Celebration of Akshay Kumar, But It Wasn’t
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Watching Padmaavat like Rihanna: Yes I am Gonna Stand There and Watch You...
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Finger Fries: Do Bollywood Actresses Have Their Own Private Mode of...
By Sharanya Gopinathan Our new gossip column, Finger Fries. Lady love Bollywood actresses clearly have a strange private mode of communicating with each other, kind of like inscrutable plumy...
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Padmavati: An Open Letter from Shurpanakha to the Karni Sena and Men...
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Mukesh Bhatt’s Take on Sexual Harassment in Bollywood? Women are Not Simple...
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Akshay Kumar-Mallika Dua Row: Why Women Feel Pressured To Fake Laugh Their...
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Men are Always Angry and Women Always Happy. What We Learnt From a New Study...
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Shubh Mangal Saavdhan: How Ayushmann Khurrana Will Save Us All from Akshay Kumar
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Kajol Should Have Got Blood, Not Breakfast from Dhanush
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