In the past few years that I have been reading Mahabharata, I have come across various modern retellings of the epic. Some are plot-based, some character-centric. Some are heart-touching but atrociously biased, while others are lucid and illustrated with an almost neutral pen. And Now Let Me Sleep by P.K. Balakrishnan is easily one of…
Kapoor and Sons review
Direction: Akshay Roy Cast: Ayushmaan Khurana, Parineeti Chopra, Aparajita Auddy, Rajatava Dutta Rating : ***1/2 There are some movies that make us laugh. There are some that make us cry. And then, there are those, that neither tickle our funny bone nor induce our tears glands, but instead leave a heartwarming smile on our faces…
Mahabharat Archives General Info:
We have all grown up reading or hearing some version of Mahabharata. Most of the times, our exposure to the epic is limited to condensed abridged versions like Amar Chitra Katha, TV series, famous works of literature on selected incidents or characters by stalwarts like Tagore, Ramdhari Dinkar, etc. And then, there are those wondrous stories we…
There are two kinds of people that read Mahabharat. The traditionalists, who loyally stick to the standard texts and their conventional interpretations. And the skeptics who question and challenge the existing narrations, seeing the primary texts through a prism of cynicism. There are third/fourth sub-categories too, but that is a discussion for another day. Nonetheless,…