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Review: Rekha is the life and soul of Muzaffar’s Ali’s classic ‘Umrao Jaan’

1 day ago | scroll.in | Nandini Ramnath

To watch the restored Umrao Jaan is to open an old chest stuffed with barely creased clothing and baubles that are still shiny. Muzaffar Ali’s movie from 1981 has been re-released in cinemas by the PVR Inox multiplex chain following a beautiful restoration by the National Film Archive of India. The classic film about a bygone era looks as good as new.
‘Mistry’ review: New ‘Monk’ in a newish bottle

1 day ago | scroll.in | Nandini Ramnath

It must be hard having obsessive-compulsive disorder in a dirt-loving, chaotic city like Mumbai. How can you demand order from a place that has long forgotten its meaning? It’s unsurprising that Armaan Mistry wrings his hands as often as he does. Armaan (Ram Kapoor) has been affected by OCD ever since the death of his wife Sushmita (Shraddha Nigam).
‘Maa’ review: A feeble and dull battle between mothers and monsters

1 day ago | scroll.in | Nandini Ramnath

Forty years ago, a girl was born in a landlord’s family in Chandarpur village in Bengal. The girl was immediately sent to her death – the landlord was steeped in Kali worship and believed that the girl infant must be sacrificed if Kali’s adversary, the demigod Raktabeej, was to be vanquished. In the present, the landlord’s son Shubhankar (Indraneil Sengupta) has a mysterious accident while visiting his ancestral mansion.
‘F1’ review: A winning combo of turbocharged racing and laidback charm

1 day ago | scroll.in | Nandini Ramnath

F1 dares you to dislike its characters or the film itself. There is no shortage of charmers or crowd-pleasing moments in the movie based on the Formula One World Championship and steered with verve and heart by Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski. Brad Pitt is at the head of the queue, a hot-cool dude who makes race car driving look as easy as a buggy ride on a beach. Pitt plays Sonny Hayes, who might have up there with Ayrton Senna if he hadn’t been in a near-fatal crash.
‘A dry future powered by the sun’: Solar water pumps are draining India’s groundwater reserves

2 days ago | scroll.in | Hanan Zaffar |Jyoti Thakur

On his six-acre farm in Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh, Sanjeev Kumar, a 42-year-old farmer, beams with quiet pride as he points to the glinting blue solar panels powering his irrigation pump. Installed two years ago at the cost of Rs 3.5 lakh, the 7-kilowatt system draws groundwater from as deep as 200 metres. It has been a game-changer for the wheat and peanut farmer from Chamraua village in Babina block. “Before this, I had to rely on diesel or unreliable electricity [to operate his irrigation pump].
The Emergency is 50 years old, but film censorship is still flourishing

3 days ago | scroll.in | Nandini Ramnath

On June 25 exactly 50 years ago, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a national Emergency. Between 1975 and 1977, Gandhi and her son Sanjay Gandhi presided over the suspension of the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Consitution and the arrests of opposition leaders and pro-democracy activists. June 25 will be marked as “Samvidhan Hatya Diwas” (Murder of the Constitution) by the Union government – which is ironic, given the sustained attacks on the freedom of expression on its watch.
Why Adani’s Dharavi redevelopment plan has run into stiff resistance from some residents

3 days ago | scroll.in | Tabassum Barnagarwala

Twenty years ago, Nafees Khan travelled 1,500 km from home in search of a job. He found one in Mumbai’s Dharavi, the slum that is home to a large number of small manufacturing and processing units. Today, Khan earns Rs 20,000 a month at a workshop that manufactures grinding machines. He sends most of his income back home to Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh. The workshop is also his shelter for the night. Like Khan, thousands of migrant workers have made India’s largest slum their home over several decades.
‘Panchayat’ season 4 review: Easy-going charm loses the vote to an over-hyped election

4 days ago | scroll.in | Nandini Ramnath

In Phulera village in Uttar Pradesh, where time tends to move at a glacial pace, things are finally beginning to hot up. The contest between Manju Devi (Neena Gupta) and Kranti Devi (Sunita Rajwar) for the sarpanch’s post is round the corner. The threat of regime change assumes war-like proportions. Manju Devi’s bottle gourd election symbol is being wielded with ferocity against Kranti Devi’s cooker.
The story behind the controversial film ‘Kissa Kursi Ka’, which was banned during the Emergency

4 days ago | scroll.in | Nandini Ramnath

It was one of the most notorious examples of censorship during the Emergency, one of several blots in Sanjay Gandhi’s copybook of tyranny, and an oft-quoted case study of how government apparatus can collude to crush criticism. Amrit Nahata’s Kissa Kursi Ka, a political satire about the Indira Gandhi government, was made in April 1975 but never released.
Sunday book pick: In ‘The Famous Magician’, Argentinian writer César Aira weighs literature in gold

6 days ago | scroll.in | Sayari Debnath

“Magic, he said, was very limited, limited to itself: it was what it was and nothing more.”Argentinian writer César Aira’s 2013 novella The Famous Magicianbegins with the musings of a writer who resembles Aira in many ways. “Past sixty and enjoying a certain renown”, the writer feels he has “already read too much” and there’s nothing new that he really wants to read. In addition to this, he has hit a writer’s block.