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EPL Season opener 26 - Hull 2-0 Man United
Dear fellow United fans, Please remember that last season, the first game against Arsenal was (and still is) United’s best performance under…
For those looking to enter the Hindi Film Industry
You either die outside Bombay or live long enough to see yourself move to Bombay
We can die for them but they can also kill us
1. I’m a parent of two 2. This is hyperbole 🥲
Becoming a father makes you a better human…
…but becoming a father to a daughter makes you a better man.
My first release
We make a film to say something to the world. Somewhere through the long and painful journey, the apparatus of filmmaking humbles…
Jab main chhota tha, toh kabhi kabhi school se ghar paidal jaaya karta tha...
…Kabhi kabhi bus na leke, ghanto bus stand pe baitha rehta tha. Sadko ko bas dekhte rehna, ek jagah apni nigaah chipka…
The warm hug that is ‘Real Kashmir Football Club’
Thank you for making this one Simaab Hashmi, Mahesh Mathai, Rajesh Mapuskar and SonyLiv.
I don’t remember the last time I wept in a cinema the way I did watching ‘Homebound’.
Neeraj Ghaywan has a rare talent: in a world where the persecuted shut their eyes to their own pain as a way…
‘Was anyone in your film crew disabled / from an indigenous community / LGBTQIA+?’
I am male, I am Indian, I am Muslim, I am a filmmaker. My great grandparents’ home was burnt about five times,…