by Sonal Sher | Oct 1, 2017
I don’t think I have ever had the pleasure of staring into a screen and see only women. Powerful women flying across the landscape, swords in hands, beautiful, honourable and strong. So while yesterday I didn’t care about the tag but today I want to celebrate the fact...
by Sonal Sher | Apr 15, 2016
This film couldn’t really have been made with any other actor. Yes, there are super-stars, many in Bollywood, but FAN, Maneesh Sharma’s thoughtful and highly entertaining ode to Shah Rukh Khan couldn’t have been more perfect for him. The story is simple, not...
by Sonal Sher | Jul 1, 2014
I recently read not one but a couple of articles citing the death or irrelevance of movie reviewers today. It’s true. Most people can’t even differentiate a real review from a paid one and it is a fact that people hate reading. So it all comes down to the stars...
by Sonal Sher | May 23, 2014
My love for superhero, mutant action films is well known, however good or average they might be. So it is no surprise that i was looking terribly forward to the new installment after the fabulous X-Men: First Class. X-Men: Days of Future Past peaked my interest after...
by Sonal Sher | Mar 28, 2014
Many people, in many many conversations have often tried to persuade me to live in the United States of America. Mind you these are completely hypothetical conversations, with no real world consequences, but even in these i have always maintained that i cannot imagine...
by Sonal Sher | Dec 19, 2013
I once, many weeks ago had a casual conversation with a friend, the central idea being if we are actually the best judge of what we find sexually attractive. How much of our desire is actually generated from the idea of desirable propagated from other people,...
