Cinemaah

Sepia-Tinted Past: An earlier Amazon Prime show, Cinema Marte Dum Tak, had used the documentary format to reminisce about the the B movie industry of the Eighties and Nineties. It is good …

Crime &  Punishment: This film claims to have been inspired by true events, a slew of believe-it-or-not cases all over the world (some listed at the end), in which murderers …

Puppy Love: This teen romance streaming on Amazon Mini TV exists in a fluffy cloud of innocence; were it not for the constant use of cell phones, laptops and social …

Palace Plots: There is a purpose that spooky old palaces serve— as locations for suspense or horror thrillers. Pavan Kirpalani’s Gaslight (on Disney+Hotstar) tries to be both with mixed results. The other minor advantage …

Faceless Mob: Looking at the signs of prosperity, at least in urban India, it seems as if people are eager to forget the trauma of the Covid months. Typically, those …

Twisty Turns: The film starts with such routine man stalking-wooing-winning woman sequences, that it is impossible to anticipate what is to come next in Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga (the title comes …

Unbreakable Cop: The guy is shot at, stabbed, blown up, has a kidney extracted, but all he does is grimace and come up with some stream of consciousness philosophising. The …

When Kaz Met Zoe: This is multi-cultural Britain, where the Khan family of Pakistani origin and a white British family live next door to each other, without any overt signs …

Tiger Mom: In the opening sequence of the film, an Indian infant is being taken away by two white women; the mother runs after them, tries to hang on to …

Making Science Enjoyable: Amidst the line-up of crime shows, family dramas and campus capers, Rocket Boys dropped like welcome rain after an arid summer last year– a series about scientists that was …