Blind Rage: The idea had so much potential—had writer Kanika Dhillon’s mainstream sensibilities aligned with director Devashish Makhija’s offbeat approach, Gandhari could have been a marvellous film. Unfortunately it turns out to …

Tough Memories:  The Crime Writers’ Association’s (CWA) Golden Dragon Award was won this year by Abigail Dean’s The Death of Us. Generally, crime fiction is about detectives investigating difficult case, it …

Love Hurts: The biggest positive of Musafir Cafe is that it is an old-fashioned romance at a time when streaming platforms are awash with crime shows and the odd comedy. The eight-part …

School Shenanigans: A government school anywhere would offer enough grist for the comedy mill, so a fictitious one, located in a place called Tinki Toli, which is in “almost Delhi” …

Cat Corner:   What is the likelihood of bumping into someone in Mumbai, who has not only heard of Hayao Miyazaki, but also speaks Japanese?  This happens in Padmakumar Narasimhamurthy’s …

Law And Disorder: In the 1993 film Damini, Sunny Deol played a fiery lawyer, who was immortalized with the lines: “Yeh dhai kilo ka haath jab kisi pe padta hai na, …

Two recent movie releases—Alpha and Baby Do Die Do-– have women in action roles, which is now happening more frequently, if not on the big screen, then on OTT (see Priyanka Chopra …

Old Plus New Rajkumar Hirani, with his perfect score of movie hits, enters the streaming space with Pritam And Pedro, starring his son Vir Hirani, and Arshad Warsi (Circuit of his …

The Good Doctor: The first season of  Gram Chikitsalay (2025) seemed like Panchayat redux—different village with a cute name, different profession given to the protagonist, but a similar template about a well-meaning city man clueless …

Kanneda Blues: It is obvious from the title that Ab Hoga Hisaab is a revenge drama; and that is confirmed immediately, as the narrator, Bobby Manocha (Shaheer) talks of his missing brother …