Shababa Iqbal

People are digging up everything — live concert footage, the short films he turned his music videos into, grainy rehearsal clips — and it’s all circulating across social media. Some of them weren’t even born when he died.

What if Beth March in Little Women (1868) hadn’t died of scarlet fever, but had been brutally murdered instead?

At the heart of the film is Jaafar Jackson. To say he embodies his legendary uncle would be an understatement. He doesn't merely play Michael Jackson — he channels him, and watching him, I found myself forgetting, more than once, that I wasn't watching the man himself.

If you are looking for a show that spirals gloriously out of control while still keeping things fun, “Big Mistakes” delivers exactly that. It is fast-paced, chaotic in all the right ways, and just self-aware enough to stay entertaining without tipping into exhaustion.

Romance has never existed apart from inequality. The genre depends on distance—on obstacles that make love feel hard-won.

Few genres are as unapologetically optimistic as romance. At its core lies the Happily Ever After (HEA), a convention so fundamental that it often stands in for the genre itself.

Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games series has captivated pop culture with its bold take on tyranny, sacrifice, and resistance, spanning Katniss Everdeen’s blazing defiance in The Hunger Games (2008) to her final stand in Mockingjay (2010) against Coriolanus Snow’s cold cruelty.

There is a great debate about nepotism in Hindi cinema. It's upsetting for everyone when clearly unskilled children of famous people are paraded as readymade movie stars, increasing the rift between the haves and the have-nots and highlighting the inequities of various systems across the screen. "Nadaaniyan", starring Khushi Kapoor and Ibrahim Ali Khan in the lead roles, is yet another example of this.