Some actors enter our lives through films. A few somehow enter our memories and stay there, long after the film itself has faded. Anant Nag has been one of those actors for me. I have never met him. Yet the news that he is to receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2024 made me feelContinue reading “The Actor I Never Met”
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The Fury and the Faith: Why Dhurandhar Resonates
There are films one watches, and there are films one experiences—as surge, as spectacle, as a kind of collective pulse. Dhurandhar: The Revenge belongs emphatically to the latter. It does not unfold; it detonates. To borrow the vivid phrasing of The Economist, it feels like an impossible cocktail—John Wick’s choreographed brutality, Kill Bill’s stylised vengeance, and InglouriousContinue reading “The Fury and the Faith: Why Dhurandhar Resonates”
