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Second moonshot: on the Chandrayaan-3 mission on July 14
1 year, 6 months ago

Second moonshot: on the Chandrayaan-3 mission on July 14

The Hindu  

At 2.35 p.m. Indian Standard Time on July 14, the Indian Space Research Organisation plans to launch the Chandrayaan-3 mission to the moon onboard a Launch Vehicle Mark 3 from Sriharikota. While the orbiter entered into orbit around the moon, the surface mission failed in September when the lander crashed instead of executing a slow descent. In Chandrayaan-3, the rocket …

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Jilly Cooper ‘thrilled to bits’ that Rishi Sunak reads her bonkbusters
1 year, 7 months ago

Jilly Cooper ‘thrilled to bits’ that Rishi Sunak reads her bonkbusters

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Jilly Cooper has said she …

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Review: The Weird Women’s Club by Aruna Nambiar
2 years, 4 months ago

Review: The Weird Women’s Club by Aruna Nambiar

Hindustan Times  

Aruna Nambiar successfully presents the lives and struggles of three ordinary women in her third novel The Weird Women’s Club. Perceived as difficult women in their respective milieus, they reluctantly connect at a school that Avanti and Hema’s children attend, and where Jeroo is a physical instructor. When Rohit, Hema’s fit-as-a-fiddle husband, dies of heart failure on his daily morning …

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Amazon sizzle reel shows 1st glimpses of Shahid, Naga Chaitanya OTT debuts
2 years, 8 months ago

Amazon sizzle reel shows 1st glimpses of Shahid, Naga Chaitanya OTT debuts

Hindustan Times  

Amazon Prime Video, in a special event in Mumbai on Thursday, announced as many has 40 new titles for the upcoming year. Production Company: Excel Media and Entertainment Creators: Rensil D’silva and Shujaat Saudagar Executive producers - Ritesh Sidhwani, Kassim Jagmagia and Farhan Akhtar Director: Shujaat Saudagar Writers: Stoy - Hussain Zaidi; Screenplay - Resnil d’Silva, Sammer Arora and Chaitanya …

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Modern Love Mumbai trailer out: Love knows no boundaries in Prime Video series | WATCH
2 years, 8 months ago

Modern Love Mumbai trailer out: Love knows no boundaries in Prime Video series | WATCH

India TV News  

Amazon Prime Video released the official trailer of the remake of the widely loved US original anthology series Modern Love at the 5 years anniversary celebration – Prime Video Presents. For the highly anticipated first local adaptation, the anthology series will see a nuanced story about homosexuality and acceptance, a modern-day millennial love, a mother-son Asian duo, lost-love and grief, …

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Indie films making waves at global film festivals is often a sign of them subscribing to the Western idea of 'India'
3 years ago

Indie films making waves at global film festivals is often a sign of them subscribing to the Western idea of 'India'

Firstpost  

The thing about film festivals is that those who judge films from a variety of countries are basically strangers to the realities of that country, aware of them only through narratives already in the media space. The last year or two have been very good for independent Indian cinema at international film festivals, with PS Vinothraj’s visually striking Tamil film …

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Middle Class Melodies, Moothon and the growing spotlight on multiculturalism in South Indian cinema
4 years, 1 month ago

Middle Class Melodies, Moothon and the growing spotlight on multiculturalism in South Indian cinema

Firstpost  

In Telugu cinema, filmmakers often forget about people and stories outside the borders of big cities and urban milieus. Maybe, that’s why they found the dialect from the recently released Amazon Prime movie Middle Class Melodies endearing. There’s has been no room for multiculturalism anywhere in mainstream Telugu cinema – right from the dialect to the upper-middle-class setting, it’s the …

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‘Super 30’ and Bollywood’s cultural stereotype challenge
5 years, 6 months ago

‘Super 30’ and Bollywood’s cultural stereotype challenge

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Even as 'Super 30', his biopic on Bihar-based mathematician Anand Kumar readies for release this Friday, actor Hrithik Roshan has already courted criticism for what seems to be yet another Bollywood example of racism and cultural stereotype. Roshan appears in the trailer with darkened skin and a thick accent, the latter similar to Hindi cinema’s other Bihari characters, …

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Oscars 2019: Black Panther, Roma may be on opposite sides of the spectrum, but both stand true to their milieus
5 years, 10 months ago

Oscars 2019: Black Panther, Roma may be on opposite sides of the spectrum, but both stand true to their milieus

Firstpost  

What sets the two Best Picture nominees at Oscars 2019 apart was the intent to not water down the cultural markers of the minorities/places they represent. Ryan Coogler’s superhero movie Black Panther and Alfonso Cuaron’s neorealist slice-of-life film Roma will make history at the Oscars this Sunday as they are the first Marvel film and the first Netflix film respectively …

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