Serious Men : Sudhir Mishra and Nawazuddin Siddiqui on their new film
Sudhir Mishra and (left) Nawazuddin Siddiqui on the sets of Serious Men . Courtesy: NetflixPremium
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Between Sudhir Mishra and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, there s been plenty of memorable Mumbai-centric cinema made. The director has given us the searing
Dharavi and the underrated gangster film
Iss Raat Ki Subah Nahi. And Siddiqui has played Mumbaikars of all stripes, from politician Bal Thackeray and serial killer Raman Raghav to the gentle strivers of
Bombay Talkies and
Mishra and Siddiqui have collaborated for the first time on
Serious Men, an adaptation of Manu Joseph s 2010 novel about Ayyan Mani, an ambitious Dalit man whose dreams of lifting himself out of poverty cause him to run a risky con involving his young son. The film will release on Netflix on 2 October. Over a video call, Mishra and Siddiqui spoke about how cities leave their mark on you and why the film
Why women lose at chess
GM Koneru Humpy and Chinese GM Ju Wenjun at the 2019 Skolkovo Women Grand Prix. Photo: David Llada/Fide
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When she first started participating in chess tournaments at age 7, Koneru Humpy would play in both draws of boys and girls. “They considered girls as ‘underdog players’, so I was allowed to participate, she recalls. “But mostly girls themselves didn’t dare do that because the competition (in the boys’ draw) was very tough.
Humpy was no underdog. In 1999 and 2000, she won the Asian under-12 and national under-14 titles at ages 12 and 13, respectively, both in the boys’ category. Her performance against girls was even better: She swept up the top prize at the under 10, 12, 14 and 20 world championships. At the age of 15, she became a chess grandmaster (GM), the youngest woman in the world at the time to enter the elite club. She even broke the record of Judit Polgár, the highest rated woman chess p
Noam Chomsky, Bill Gates, Avni Doshi among speakers as Jaipur Lit Fest goes virtual
The coronavirus pandemic, racism and nationalism and, of course, books will be talked about at the 14th edition of the popular literature festival that will be held from February 19-28. February 13, 2021 / 08:43 AM IST
(From Left) Jaipur Literature Festival producer Sanjoy K Roy with co-directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple. (File image)
Instead of footfalls on the hallowed ground of the Diggi Palace, the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) will be counting clicks on its website this year.
Dubbed the Kumbh Mela of literature , JLF kicks off next week in a virtual edition. The setting and atmospherics are going to be missed but the 14th edition of the festival has an impressive line-up of speakers from around the world to talk about books, the pandemic, racism and nationalism.
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