Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A drama about female subjugation and liberation that plays first like a horror story, then like a rosy fantasy, “Parched” argues ...

A day before the release of Bollywood film 'Parched', a PIL was today filed in the Gujarat High Court seeking a ban on it, claiming that it had projected the Rabari/Maldhari (cattle-breeders) ...

From the beautifully-framed opening shot, "Parched" rolls out a lush, lovely portrait of four women struggling with different stages and places in life. (Courtesy Cleveland International Film Festival ...

Leena Yadav’s rustic chick flick provides a map to female desire with the tourist bits marked out in bold and bright colours. Yadav’s third film Parched presents gender issues in a fairy-tale setting, ...

A day before the release of Bollywood film Parched, a PIL was on Thursday filed in the Gujarat High Court seeking a ban on it, claiming that it had projected the Rabari/Maldhari (cattle-breeders) ...

Leena Yadav’s Parched is a much talked about film of the season. The Surveen Chawla, Radhika Apte & Tannishtha Chatterjee starrer was premiered at the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto ...

Long after Parched played out its poignant plot, I kept thinking about the four women at the forefront of Leena Yadav’s sparkling saga of patriarchal tyranny. The enduring grief and the brief bouts of ...

Leena Yadav’s Parched (2015) marks the director’s return to the big screen after a five-year break. Her previous movie Teen Patti (2010), a big-budget thriller about the relationship between gambling ...

Writer-director Leena Yadav shines a light on India’s apparently still-thriving misogyny through this tale of four women. Though the focus is divided among four protagonists, the nominal center of ...