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POV Jayeshbhai Jordaar Review: A Loud Firecracker of a Film
Jayeshbhai Jordaar is everything you’d expect from a Ranveer Singh performance. But while the charms work, the film can often become too loud for its own good. That doesn’t, of course, make it not worth your time.
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Love and Sex Beyond People and Relationships: This is my Modern Love Story about Mumbai
Convention dictates that love manifests in terms of the people we choose to be with but for somebody like me, it is the freedom of not having or wanting to make that choice that has felt the more liberating. Like Prime Video’s ‘Raat Raani’ (part of Modern Love Mumbai) I have found love in moments, inanimate objects and the many ways Mumbai both challenges and supports you. For it is perhaps the only city where you can feel loved without being defined by it.
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POV Indigo, Discrimination and Raising A Special Needs Child: A Mother’s View
As the mother of a special needs child, the Indigo incident was triggering. For it brought back memories of the times where I have fought discrimination and societal ignorance to get my child to be treated fairly.
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POV Thar Review: Lots of Style, but Little Substance
Spectacular to look at, Thar sports a more than decent performance by Anil Kapoor. Everything else about the film though underwhelms.
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POV Dreamy Careers: How I Got Caught in the Vortex of ‘Following Your Passion’
Being passionate about my work has helped me navigate the worst of times, but lately, my career feels like a never-ending maze. It makes me wonder if chasing my passion was even worth it in the first place.
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Social Commentary Surviving the Indian Summer as a Sanskari Woman
Every summer, women in India have to contend with ball-scratching, banyan-wearing men either telling them what to wear or leering at them long enough to force them into covering every inch of their burning skin. The body politics of this latest heatwave is a burden only women will be made to carry.
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Pop Culture Runway 34 Review: Doesn’t Land as Well as it Could Have
Ajay Devgn stars and directs this latest film about a miraculous plane landing. But what is a good premise to begin with is eventually wasted in this caricaturist portrayal of a near accident and the intrigue surrounding it.
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POV Living Between Cities: A Search for This Feeling Called Home
Modern life is all about migration and being on the move for work. But living between cities, while fetishized has exacted a toll on me that I did not see coming. I can call two cities my home, but rarely feel homely in either.
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Social Commentary Erasing Faiz Only Adds to his Significance
The removal of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poetry from CBSE’s school curriculum is a naïve step that only furthers the legend and significance of the poet’s seminal work.
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Pop Culture Jersey Review: A Compelling Sporting Drama
Shahid Kapoor’s Jersey doesn’t quite better the original, but for first-time viewers it is a compelling father-son story that successfully masquerades as a tale of sporting redemption.
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POV Jayeshbhai Jordaar Review: A Loud Firecracker of a Film
Jayeshbhai Jordaar is everything you’d expect from a Ranveer Singh performance. But while the charms work, the film can often become too loud for its own good. That doesn’t, of course, make it not worth your time.
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