Rasika Dugal on portrayal of women on screen

Actress Rasika Dugal says while it is a good sign how the image of Indian women is changing on-screen, she feels there’s an attempt to try to create a new stereotype to break the earlier. In the Amazon Prime Video show Mirzapur, Dugal essays a housewife who is quite a complex, grey character. Sharing her … Read more

Rasika Dugal’s Mirzapur look inspired by tragedy queen Meena Kumari?

After playing the tough and endearing Safia in Nandita Das’ Manto earlier this year, Rasika Dugal seems to have picked up a nous for tragic characters. The actress will next be seen alongside Pankaj Tripathi in the Amazon Prime Original series, Mirzapur. To bring a certain authenticity to her character, Dugal seems to have tapped … Read more

Hamid’s release postponed in the wake of Pulwama terror attack

In the wake of the Pulwama attack, the makers of Hamid have pushed back the release of the film, which explores the conflict in Kashmir through the perspective of an eight-year-old boy who develops an unlikely friendship with a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper. Starring Talha Arshad Reshi as the boy and Vikas Kumar as the CRPF trooper, … Read more

Gripping look at the Nirbhaya case from the police perspective

“This crime is not just heinous. It’s insanity,” says Shefali Shah’s character DCP Vartika Chaturvedi in the newest Netflix series, Delhi Crime. The first trailer of the anthology series reveals how the Delhi police picked up the pieces to solve the case of the gang-rape of a young Delhi woman and brought in the accused … Read more