Celluloid Archives - Different Truths

March 10, 2022
Pyusha Chatterjee Singh
Films, Gender, Special Feature

Liberated Leading Ladies of the Celluloid

Pyusha takes a look at some of the unconventional female characters and women-centric films Bollywood has produced in the recent years. She critiques such films with thumbnail reviews, as...

July 10, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour, Sports

Matching up to England and Bowling out the Raj

With the current India-England series on, Soumya recounts the life and times of his grandfather, a civil servant of the Raj, and his glee when India defeated England in...

March 8, 2018
IPA Service
Cinema, Politics

Big Boss Kamal and Dark Horse Rajini

Who is the dark horse – Kamal the Big Boss or Rajini the Kaala? The only ‘similar’ about Rajini and Kamal is that both are actor-turned-politicians. Superstars! Both have...

February 1, 2018
IPA Service
Cinema

Why did Bhansali Reduce Rani Padmini to a Vagina, not allow Women to Live after Rape? And Alauddin his Fun!

The feminist in actor’s guise, who watched period drama Padmaavat, walked out a zombie, the feminist in her raped and ravaged. How dare, Mr. Bhansali, Sir, reduce her to...

January 21, 2018
Sreelata Menon
Cover Story, Politics

Rajnikanth: The Advent of a New Star-Politician

Convinced of the need to now play a true-life saviour to the masses in real life rather than in reel-life Rajnikanth, who is yet to name his party believes...

July 28, 2017
Shameena Abdurahiman
Fashion & Beauty

The Cult of the Body Beautiful and Growth of Plastic Surgery to Enhance Sex Appeal – III

The post-war (World Wars) plastic surgery boom and the breaking down of traditional reluctance to undergo plastic surgery, particularly middle-aged, middle-class women, who were affluent and largely finished with raising...

July 21, 2017
Shameena Abdurahiman
Fashion & Beauty, History & Culture

The Emergence of Plastic Surgery from the Renaissance to the Present Day – II

In the second part, Shameena tells us about the brief rise of plastic surgery during the Renaissance. The two World Wars led to the innovations, making plastic and cosmetic...

January 26, 2017
Rita Bhattacharjee
Advocacy, Cinema

Old is Gold: These are few of my Favourite Films about Aging and the Elderly

Rita revisits seven sensitive films that break the stereotypes of the elderly – grumpy old men or kindly, self-sacrificing grandmothers. Only once in a while does a movie with interesting senior characters...

April 8, 2016
Purnita Banerjee
Films

Bong Beauty Nyra with Sizzling Sunny Leone during the Shooting of One Night Stand

Purnita explores the delicate equation between the two female leads, Nyra Banerjee and Sunny Leone, of the forthcoming film, One Night Stand, releasing on April 29. A Different Truths exclusive. Nyra...

January 18, 2016
Dr. Sunil Gupta
Potpourri

Good Scrap and Good Stories

Sunil profiles, Nirmal, the storekeeper of the museum where he works. Despite the humdrum of life, his proclivity for the pen is not all the incongruous. Pointing to the rickety...

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