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 When food shows on have become content, the unassuming simplicity of Somebody Feed Phill got me hooked In an era, where simplicity has been traded for excesses, Somebody Feed Phil reminds us about getting the basics right. During the 25 years that I’ve been receptive to [and later obsessed with] films, I’ve picked up on some of the most inane things on screen. How Rahul Bose elegantly rolls his roti before tearing one end of it in Dil Dhadakne Do to suggest his royal lineage, or the way Abhishek Bachchan rips up a paratha, and smothers it with palak paneer in one of his least known films Shararat to underline his devil-may-care attitude. The cute gadget in Spy Kids, where one only needs to insert tokens into a microwave-like machine, close the door, and in the span of a second, they’re served Happy Meals, replete with crispy looking fries. Sometimes, I also reminisce about the time Farida Jalal swooped into Shah Rukh Khan’s kitchen in Duplicate, and ‘corrected’ the Japanese dishes by

Sundance Film Festival 2022 brings in renewed hopes for movies, both that challenge and comfort The best thing about Sundance Film Festival is that I do not have to choose. The 2022 line-up includes movies that reflect the miserable realities of contemporary life or movies that conjure alternative realities. There was a time not so long ago when the Sundance Film Festival was in danger of being overwhelmed by swag, hype, and other extra-cinematic preoccupations. One year, if I remember right, there were stickers all over its Park City, Utah, home reminding those of us in attendance to “focus on films” rather than parties, celebrity sightings, industry buzz, and tabloid gossip. That is not much of a problem now. For the second year in a row, Sundance is not in Park City at all. Instead of traipsing up and down Main Street or piling into shuttle buses, the audience is exactly where it has been for most of the past two years: at home, in front of a screen, scrolling through a menu in sear