The Land Of Fixers: The title might give the idea that the is about royalty, but it’s just the Bollywood tendency of giving grandiose titles to thugs and gangsters. In…
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Sow The Whirlwind: When television and social media are all-pervasive today, and instead of clearing facts are being used to spread misinformation, Shiladitya Bora’s Bhagwan Bharose (with Ab Toh Sab…
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Instaready Romance: Based on a novel by Ishita Peerbhoy, this Amazon miniTV show is about a woman’s search for The One. Riya (Maanvi Gagroo) is the kind of over-planning OCD-afflicted…
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Whacking Moles: It’s good to note that the genre of the espionage thriller is catching on with OTT platforms, even though most of the stories belong to the past. Are…
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Wedding Woes: There is an ad for a clothing brand that has a popular star tell guests at a wedding, who have come in subdued formals, “Shaadi mein aaye hain,…
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Girl Interrupted: For some reason filmmakers believe that drinking is a sign of modernity; not just drinking, but downing so many drinks that the binge results in hangovers, puking, blackouts.…
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The first season of Mumbai Diaries got all its chosen elements right—a high-strung medical drama set in a hospital, when the 26/11 terrorist attacks took place. One of the targets of the…
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Rise Of The Loser: Mainstream Hindi cinema may be slow to catch on to the complexities of a rapidly changing Indian society, but does understand easy slogans like ‘Follow Your…
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Whitewash Time: In Mumbai slang, choona lagana is to fool or con someone. Which is what six men do to a politician against whom they all hold a valid grudge. The heist caper…
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That Christie Gal: There have been unofficial Hindi film adaptations of Agatha Christie’s novels—like Gumnaam and Dhund—but for the first time, Agatha Christie Limited, which handles the author’s estate, has franchised one of her…