45 years after ‘Gupt Gyan’, the first sex education Hindi film was released, debutante director Shilpi Dasgupta comes up with a film centred around a sex clinic. A few years ago, we had well-made flicks on the subject – Vicky Donor and Shubh Mangal Saavdhan. Sonakshi Sinha plays the protagonist Babita (Baby) Bedi, who inherits her…
This film, which lost out to last year’s Cannes winner, ‘Shoplifters’, is a riveting tale of love, sacrifice and life in North-west China, near Mongolia, at the turn of the century. Local gangster Bin (Liao Fan) is reluctantly pushed to the helm of affairs after his boss is bumped off by rivals. Bin’s moll Qiao (Zhao…
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at editor@parsi-times.com by 31st July, 2019. Winner: Lion: I don’t believe you!! Seriously???? Man: Yep! Some Parsis are vegetarians!! – Vahishta S. Patel
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_type=”border-top-bottom” border_style=”bordered” border_color=”#0f1bff” background_color=”#85edff”]Aapro Cyrus Broacha, the Brand Ambassador of Humour, is back to share his HOWLARIOUS take on his musings as regards whether the Parsi Community is Matriarchal or Patriarchal, in our monthly monthly column, Cyrus The (Not So) Great![/otw_shortcode_info_box] .s I’ll start with the greetings Mark Anthony used when he saw Brutus…
CGI-created wildlife, in all its glory, comes alive in the opening frames of The Lion King, exactly 25 years after the earlier version was exhibited to awestruck audiences worldwide. The occasion – Simba, the month-old lion cub, and the newly anointed heir to Pride Lands, is greeted with obeisance by his father, King Musafa’s subjects….
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at editor@parsi-times.com by 24th July, 2019. Winner: Kangana: Accept it, Hrithink – I’m way better than you with Manikarnika, Tanu Weds Manu, Queen…! Hrithik: These are nothing compared to my Jodhaa Akbar, Krrish, Zindagi Na…
‘A world without the Beatles is infinitely worse’, we are told at one point in this film. Worse than what, we aren’t told. Doesn’t matter, because the film is about the Beatles, though not exactly. Confused? Then read on… Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) is an amateur singer, working in a cash-and-carry in a coastal town in…
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at editor@parsi-times.com by 17th July, 2019. Winner: Important meeting ongoing at a Parsi Club, President addressing the Committee: “Shall we add potato in the Dhansak?” – Varez Dadina
The best example a law professor could impart to his students in a lecture regarding ‘abetment’ of crime would be to round off the director and writer of ODJD. Jokes aside, while the director deserves to take flak for some hamming by even talented character actors (Rajesh Sharma, Murli Sharma), writer Alaukik Rahi should be…
Winner of the coveted Palme D’or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, and directed by the redoubtable Hirokazu Kore-eda, ‘Shoplifters’ is an affecting and poignant tale of the Shibatas, an impoverished joint family – none of them blood-related – who makes ends meet by indulging in shoplifting in supermarkets. Patriarch Osamu Shibata (Lily Franky) has…
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at editor@parsi-times.com by 10th July, 2019. Winner: Rahul: Mummy!! Jasmine bi koi ne panni gayi! Sonia: Tension na le! ‘Parsi Shaadi App’ chalu thai gayu! – Delkash Shahrian