Sakshi Jain

PRAXIS is the world’s largest festival for reputation management professionals where the who is who of the Indian PR fraternity come together to connect, engage and celebrate. On 27 th and 28 th September 2019 the eight edition of the annual summit took place in Grand Hyatt, Goa. The summit was aimed at exploring more on Trust at the core of Public Relations and various speakers from across the globe came together and spoke on the subject, one of them was, Devdutt Pattanaik. He was the special guest in the event and addressed the audience with his take on Trust in Public Relation on the second day. Devdutt Pattanaik is an Indian author popularly known for his work in mythology and willful misinterpretations of ancient Indian scriptures, stories, symbols and rituals. Three of his novels from the 7 Secrets series were gifted to the attendees on the second morning. In his address to the reputation management professionals, he spoke about the importance of trust in Public Relati...

A tear-jerker and amazingly sad film. The sky is pink is Hindi film based on the real-life story of a motivational speaker Aisha Chaudhary. The film goes back in flashback and shows the struggles and tragedy in her life. How her sickness made her unable to do most things that we take for granted and how she did not let the sadness overpower her happiness. The film stars Priyanka Chopra, Farhan Akhtar, Zaira Wasim and Rohit Suresh Saraf. The four played the Chaudhary family in the movie. The story revolves around Aisha who first fights with a deadly disease as a child and is diagnosed by a severe lung disease at the age of 15. She died in 2015 as a young and beautiful 18-year-old. The story shows her struggle as well as her family battling with her situation and trying to bring a smile on her face again and again. Apart from Aisha, the film also projects the beautiful love story of her parents and how they deal with everything that life throws at them, over the year...

Pride, we all are familiar with the word and we all know what it represents. Pride, a proud voice of the LGBTQ community. We humans have divided ourselves into different communities based on our characteristics, values, culture, and race and now we are fighting amongst ourselves to protect our own. It feels as if the concept of acceptance needs to be instilled in our mind again and again. The day that happens, most of our issues will be solved.    LGBTQ community has been struggling for years to be accepted in the society, the society which is their own but still treats them like outsiders. India has always been conservative and hesitant when it comes to publically speaking of sexual orientation. In such scenario it was very difficult for people with sexual orientation different than what is considered “normal” to voice out their opinion publically. Many people in our country were unaware of the concept and majority out of the people who were aware considered it to be...

Tumbbad (2018) Tumbbad is period horror film directed by debutant Rahi Anil Barve. It is a story about a man and his son who encounter a legendry demon while searching for hidden treasure in the 19 th century India. It is an example for great acting and amazing screenplay. Apparently, the movie did not collect much at the box office but was highly praised by the critics. It also premiered in the critics' week section of the 75th Venice International Film Festival—the first Indian film to be screened there. Masaan (2015) Masaan is one of the finest films of Indian cinema with a unique and novel storyline, acting and music. Directed by Neeraj Ghaywan starring Vicky Kaushal, Richa Chadda and Shweta Tripathi, Masaan is an unusual screenplay of two different stories simultaneously taking place and converging beautifully in the end. The movie focuses on social stigma of pre-marital sexual relations and the life of people working at cremation ghats. It did not work well on...

I love Bollywood! Growing up, I have always been this Bollywood junkie dancing around on Bole Chudiya and pretending to be the Poo in my head. A classic Bollywood drama made me the happiest. It was my refuge, my escape from this world to a place where I could experience something so novel and unexplored. As I grew up, cinema fascinated me even more. Not the glamour and the fame the profession has but rather, the power you, as a filmmaker hold to influence people on such a large scale. To make the audience see what you want and convey your message in such an artistic way that it leaves a major impression behind. Indian cinema is the largest cinema in the world in terms of production per year. It produces around 1800 films annually. Some of these movies work wonders on the box office but many don’t get the recognition that they deserve. Following is the list of the most underrated movies of Indian cinema that every cinema lover should watch. Pyaasa (1957) Sometimes old real...