Poonam Saxena

Recently, I saw one of the best films I’ve watched this year, 2018, a Malayalam film about the devastating floods…

As a blanket of blazing heat descends on the north Indian plains, it’s time for the great summer exodus to the…

The most notable part of Netflix’s four-part documentary series The Romantics is the discovery that Aditya Chopra…

As audiences trickle back into cinema halls, I’ve been thinking of how different the movie-going experience used to…

Delhi in the 1950s. The novel opens at Connaught Place. The narrator, Madhusudan, has just got off a bus and is on…

Why does Sanjay Leela Bhansali want to remake a film that turned 70 this month (it was released in October 1952)? I…

In how many languages can you say congratulations? Some time in the coming week, the shortlist for the JCB Prize,…

On October 2, in what seems to be the tail end of the Covid-19 pandemic, I am reminded of a quarantine aboard a…

The number of times people talk about Bollywood clichés has become something of a cliché in itself. But the adage…

If the legendary Premchand endorsed a writer and called him “the future of Hindi literature”, one would expect a…