Director Homi Adajania is a restless soul. In his prettily decorated room in producer Dinesh Vijan’s new office in Santa Cruz, Mumbai, he is constantly on the move, talking to Sachin of the music composer duo Sachin-Jigar about the lyrics of a song in his upcoming movie, Angrezi Medium. Even when he sits down for the interview, his energy does not ebb. In a few minutes, he is up again, pacing and answering questions at the same time.
Adajania’s latest release is quite a departure from his previous films. Angrezi Medium, starring Irrfan, Radhika Madan and Deepak Dobriyal, is set in Udaipur and is about an aspirational young girl convincing her father, a sweet shop owner, to send her to a London university. It is quite unlike his first film—Being Cyrus (2005)—a critically acclaimed story of a dysfunctional Parsi family. Or, his second—Cocktail (2012)—an urban romance that was contemporary and different in its approach even if it was panned for being regressive and too commercial. And, his last, Finding Fanny (2014), originally in English and dubbed in Hindi, was set in Goa and had five oddball characters. It had its takers, but some found it too intellectual.
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William Dalrymple goes further back
Indian readers have long known William Dalrymple as the chronicler nonpareil of India in the early years of the British raj. His latest book, The Golden Road, is a striking departure, since it takes him to a period from about the third century BC to the 12th-13th centuries CE.
The bleat from the street
What with all the apps delivering straight to one’s doorstep, the supermarkets, the food halls and even the occasional (super-expensive) pop-up thela (cart) offering the woke from field-to-fork option, the good old veggie-market/mandi has fallen off my regular beat.
Courage and conviction
Justice A.M. Ahmadi's biography by his granddaughter brings out behind-the-scenes tension in the Supreme Court as it dealt with the Babri Masjid demolition case
EPIC ENTERPRISE
Gowri Ramnarayan's translation of Ponniyin Selvan brings a fresh perspective to her grandfather's magnum opus
Upgrade your jeans
If you don’t live in the top four-five northern states of India, winter means little else than a pair of jeans. I live in Mumbai, where only mad people wear jeans throughout the year. High temperatures and extreme levels of humidity ensure we go to work in mulmul salwars, cotton pants, or, if you are lucky like me, wear shorts every day.
Garden by the sea
When Kozhikode beach became a fertile ground for ideas with Manorama Hortus
RECRUITERS SPEAK
Industry requirements and selection criteria of management graduates
MORAL COMPASS
The need to infuse ethics into India's MBA landscape
B-SCHOOLS SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT INDIAN ECONOMY IS GOING TO WITNESS A TREMENDOUS GROWTH
INTERVIEW - Prof DEBASHIS CHATTERJEE, director, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
COURSE CORRECTION
India's best b-schools are navigating tumultuous times. Hurdles include lower salaries offered to their graduates and students misusing AI
