More Gone Girls: The 2021 film Chhorii, used the horror format to make a comment on the gruesome practice of female infanticide. A woman found herself trapped in a village in the…
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Little Shine: The first season of Rohit Jugraj’s Chamak was a celebration of the music of Punjab, couched in a fictionalised version of the sensational and unsolved murder of legendary folk singer…
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Kolkata Confidential: The title song lists the various things Bengal is famous for and then promises to show a “ek aur rang”, which is the kind of macho, gruesome violence…
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Gangs Of Vancouver: This crime show is set in Canada, and is titled Kanneda, because that’s how Punjabis pronounce it. The characters are Punjabi migrants who have settled in Vancouver, after…
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Goan Monster: The new true crime documentary, The Dupatta Killer (on Docubay), bears an uncanny resemblance to Reema Kagti’s Dahaad. Both the fictional and non-fiction shows bring out the misogyny embedded in Indian…
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Guns And Heists: In 1995, the arms drop in Purulia had caused quite a sensation. The man, responsible for it, who gave himself the swashbuckling name of Kim Davy, was…
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Two Right Feet: If dancer-choreographer Remo D’Souza is the director of a film, it would obviously be about dance. Also the co-writer of Be Happy (with Kanishka Singh Deo and Chirag Garg), D’Souza…
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Motorcycle Chronicles: If the quaintly titled Dupahiya (two wheeler) gives off Panchayat and Laapata Ladies vibes, it is because the enjoyable series (on Amazon Prime Video) is set in the same rural universe, which is…
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Romance Undone: In case anybody entered the room late when Nadaaniyan was playing on the TV screen, they’d immediately know it was a Karan Johar (Dharmatic production). The characters look, act and…
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History Unwrapped: The words inspired by true events are written and crossed out after the title The Waking Of A Nation. It is as if Ram Madhvani, creator and director of…