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Featuring a fully-immersed performance by Joaquin Phoenix as the lead, Todd Phillips’ Joker is a gripping portrayal of one of the most popular comic-book villains that will ultimately become Batman’s nemesis. Arthur Fleck is a man tormented by his inner unsettling feelings. As he struggles to make a living as a clown, he finds his hero in talk show host Murray Franklin (Robert De Niro) whom he begins to idealise.

After Heath Ledger immortalized the Joker in his Oscar-winning performance in Dark Knight, Phoenix obviously had a tough act to follow. But with his career-defining performance in the Todd Phillips’ directorial, Phoenix certainly proves his remarkable skill and genius.

Written by Todd Phillips and Silver Scott, the Scorsese universe (King of Comedy and Taxi Driver) Joker exists in is dark and brutal. The Joker uses his laugh to register his protest and, in a twisted way, cope with his unbearable life that is devoid of a safe sanctuary. He tends to his sick mother (Frances Conroy) and faces up virtually everyday to his unfulfilled dream of being a successful stand up comedian.

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Imagine you’re 14 years old, away from family, and news comes that you’re going to jail. How would you feel? Nervous? Worried?

Or excited, like Manu Gandhi? In 1942, when Manu, the grand-niece of Gandhi, heard that she could join India’s freedom struggle, she jumped with joy. This podcast, based on Manu Gandhi's diaries, is the second episode in a special three-part podcast series by The Quint on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birthday on 2nd October.

Listen to the first episode in this series here: https://audioboom.com/posts/7381345-diary-of-a-manu-gandhi-ep-1-meet-bapu-through-a-young-girl-s-eyes

Imagine you’re 14 years old, away from family, and news comes that you’re going to jail. How would you feel? Nervous? Worried?

Or excited, like Manu Gandhi? In 1942, when Manu, the grand-niece of Gandhi, heard that she could join India’s freedom struggle, she jumped with joy. This podcast, based on Manu Gandhi's diaries, is the second episode in a special three-part podcast series by The Quint on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birthday on 2nd October.

Listen to the first episode in this series here: https://audioboom.com/posts/7381345-diary-of-a-manu-gandhi-ep-1-meet-bapu-through-a-young-girl-s-eyes

Manu Gandhi is a face you’ve seen, but probably can’t quite recall. You know that photograph of Gandhi you saw in school, one where he is accompanied by two women as he walks to a prayer-meeting, just a few minutes away from his assassination by Nathuram Godse? A young, teenage girl, who’d just lost her mother, she soon came to witness history unfolding — from fasts for India’s independence to Gandhi’s yajna as he strove for the ultimate truth

Luckily for us, she wrote it all in a diary.

This is a special three-part podcast to mark the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birthday on 2 October 2019. The podcast is based on the diaries of Manu Gandhi written from 1943 to 1944. Listen for a young girl’s ringside view of history and for a portrait of Gandhi you haven't seen in history books!

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Manu Gandhi is a face you’ve seen, but probably can’t quite recall. You know that photograph of Gandhi you saw in school, one where he is accompanied by two women as he walks to a prayer-meeting, just a few minutes away from his assassination by Nathuram Godse? A young, teenage girl, who’d just lost her mother, she soon came to witness history unfolding — from fasts for India’s independence to Gandhi’s yajna as he strove for the ultimate truth

Luckily for us, she wrote it all in a diary.

This is a special three-part podcast to mark the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birthday on 2 October 2019. The podcast is based on the diaries of Manu Gandhi written from 1943 to 1944. Listen for a young girl’s ringside view of history and for a portrait of Gandhi you haven't seen in history books!

Why does the 8-month-old rape survivor's mother want to move her two toddler kids out of the house today? It's been nearly two years since she walked in on her baby crying, in a pool of blood and stool. Will the move help them forget?

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Why does the 8-month-old rape survivor's mother want to move her two toddler kids out of the house today? It's been nearly two years since she walked in on her baby crying, in a pool of blood and stool. Will the move help them forget?

Why does Chhutki's father think the family should move out of their home, nearly two years after his eight-month-old baby was raped? Here's what he says.

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Why does Chhutki's father think the family should move out of their home, nearly two years after his eight-month-old baby was raped? Here's what he says.

“Desh khatre mein hain” - it’s a sentiment that’s echoed in most web series these days. Terror plans being hatched and security forces trying everything in their capacity to abort them. Amazon Prime Video‘s latest offering The Family Man has a similar plot line. This drill can get a tad drab if not for some genuinely smart writing. Luckily for us, The Family Man doesn’t disappoint us.

Directed by Raj and DK, who have also written it along with Suman Kumar and Sumit Arora, gives us a fresh perspective through which to process officer Srikant Tiwari’s tactics. He’s a family man first - someone seen fixing a sandwich for his daughter, is scared of upsetting the wife, negotiating his “family time” with a demanding career. Thats’s Srikant Tiwari for us.

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