V For Vigilante: The first season of Code M, set in Jodhpur, had its protagonist battle encounter killings and homophobia in the army. It was interesting to watch a woman in…
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History Revision: When ads of a film proclaim that it is about the last Hindu emperor, and its star states that very little is known about Prithviraj Chauhan, as if…
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The Way Of The Soldier: The 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai (2008), are indelibly inked in the city’s memories. Among the people who showed extraordinary courage, a few stand out,…
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Gullible People: When Prakash Jha’s Aashram came out (in 2020), it resuscitated Bobby Deol’s stagnant career, and gave the fledgling OTT channel MX Player its flagship show. The series about a fraud…
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The Outsider: If the village-based series, Panchayat, were to be darker and less fairy-tale like, then it could become Nirmal Pathak Ki Ghar Wapsi. In this SonyLiv series too, the protagonist is a city-bred man…
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Back To Phulera: The first season of Panchayat came out in 2020, a little after Covid19 locked down everything and an OTT boom hit television viewers of the country. The Viral Fever…
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Welcome Back, Bosch: Bosch completed seven seasons, but the show based on the character from Michael Connelly’s best-selling books, had to go on, because fans wanted more. So Titus Welliver returns…
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Romancing The City: A series of real-life stories contributed by people to The New York Times for a column called Modern Love was converted by John Carney into a web series with the same title.…
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The wickedly pulpy Bollywoodian crime-revenge-family drama, Savage Beauty, is a kind of Succession, set in South Africa, with Black actors. If in American shows, the characters are all look sleek, clad…
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Cowboy Country: Created by Brian Watkins, Outer Range is not a straight cowboys-on-ranch series. It is a fascinating, sometimes confusing, blend of sci-fi fantasy, mythology and family drama. The best thing about stories…