chhotahazri

Hindi: chhoti haziri, vulg. hazri, 'little breakfast'; refreshment taken in the early morning, before or after the morning exercise. (Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, 1994 [1886])

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30 September 2018

Sisters under their skins

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My Mirror column: Last week’s release Love Sonia , Tabrez Noorani’s cinematic exposé of India’s role in the international sex trade , mak...

Mean Streets

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My Mirror column : A promising film about sex workers strives to be bleakly documentary while also taking the revolutionary road — and lose...

17 September 2018

Interview: Neeraj Kabi

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Actor Neeraj Kabi came into the limelight with Ship of Theseus (2013). His work has since been appreciated in content as different as Hic...

Film review: Once Again

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Old School Romance My review of Kanwal Sethi's film Once Again , now streaming on Netflix: A few minutes into Once Again...

9 September 2018

Backing and advancing

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My Mirror column : Has the mature woman with a marriage in her past finally become a legitimate recipient of romance in Hindi cinema? ...

8 September 2018

A sympathetic spirit

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My Mirror column : Do the men haunted by a female ghost learn any lessons in Amar Kaushik’s affable small-town comedy? One, don’t l...

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