. Women’s Day Contest Winners
Category: Entertainment
Caption This – 23rd February
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at mailparsitimes@gmail.com by 27th February, 2019. Winner: Alia: Looks like war… Hoon aai side thi ‘Highway’ pakruj, tu te side thi ‘Gully’ pakar! -By Burjor C. Antia (Puna)
Caption This – 16th February
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at mailparsitimes@gmail.com by 20th February, 2019. Winner: Boy: According to Google maps, we are very close to each other! Girl: Where? Where? I can’t see you! -By Parizad D. Ragina
Cyrus The (Not So) Great Post Valentine’s Day Blues?
Just like my hair, it’s come and gone. Just like Jehangir Uncle’s breathing, and Coomi Aunty’s sighing… it just came and left. Of course, many people hope Coomi Aunty would leave the room with her sighs, but that’s a story for another day. But, now that you bring it up, do you ever wonder why […]
Caption This – 9th February
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at mailparsitimes@gmail.com by 13th February, 2019. Winner: Cat: “So much for Surrogacy! I’m so done with these new-age techniques!” -By Jasmine F. Shroff
Film Review: Cold Pursuit
‘An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth and multiple lives for one’, seems to be the motto of ‘Cold Pursuit’, a remake of Moland’s 2014 ‘In Order of Disappearance’ – a motif cleverly crafted during the film’s closing credits. Eye-catching cinematography, a body count which one loses track of halfway through the […]
Film Review: Mary Queen of Scots
British history is replete with ruling (Asia, Africa) and rulers (the Elizabeths, the Victorias). Adapted from the 2004 ‘Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart’, by British historian John Guy, the film charts the troubled history of the Isles from 1561, when, at the age of 16, Mary (Irish-American Saoirse Ronan) returned to […]
Caption This – 2nd February
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at mailparsitimes@gmail.com by 6th February, 2019. Winner: Modi: Aapre byov kunwaara-kaakra Valentine’s Day par su karsu? Amit Shah: Anyways kai biju bachyu nathi – chalo, ‘Valentine’s Day’ bhi BAN kariye! -By Meher and Behzad Gandhi
Film Review: Manikarnika
Six-and-a-half decades after Sohrab Modi’s technicolor epic but commercially disastrous ‘Jhansi ki Rani’ hit the screens, comes a modern-day version with Kangana Ranaut in the lead of Manikarnika (Manu). The common runtime of 148 minutes could be a mere coincidence though. The story begins in 1828 in Varanasi where great fame is predicted for a […]
Film Review: Thackeray
Shiv Sena founder, Bal Thackeray, was the de facto ruler of Maharashtra from 1966 till he passed away in 2012. Written and directed by Abhijit Panse, from a story by Thackeray’s trusted lieutenant, Sanjay Raut, the eponymous film covers his life from 1961 to 1995. Working as a cartoonist with the Free Press Journal, the […]
Caption This – 26th January
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at mailparsitimes@gmail.com by 30th January, 2019. Winner: Priyanka: “Sweetie, when they’re accusing us of ‘Gher no Gambhaar’, it’s not about free food!” -By Jeyhaan B Bastawala