Those Grey Areas: It is difficult to convert white collar crime into interesting cinema, unless it is a well-known scam that affects a large number of people, which is why…
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Monsters On The Mind: Raveena Tandon is the star attraction of Aranyak– the glamorous actress, who took a long sabbatical (nobody really retires these days), returns with this OTT series (on…
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Kolkata Killer: Had the makers of Bob Biswas known that the film would end up being streamed on an OTT platform (Zee5), they would probably have cast Saswata Chatterjee, the original…
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Court Capers: Even though it is common knowledge that the legal system in India chugs along at snail’s pace, courtroom dramas make for absorbing viewing; perhaps giving some measure of…
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Who Will Judge The Judge?: The first season of Your Honor (2020) was based on an Israeli series Kvodo, a fast-paced, emotion-charged show about a judge, who breaks some rules to save his…
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Empty Slogans: In cities, we take it for granted that every child that is part of a family will get at least basic literacy skills if not a proper education.…
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Spy Chronicles: Created by Neeraj Pandey, who, going by his filmography, seems to be fond of espionage yarns, Special Ops (2020) was a slick thriller, which may have suffered in comparison…
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When In Madurai…: A Hindi film set in Madurai amidst a conservative Tamil family is an odd bird before its strange plot unfolds. The only difference between this and any…
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The Family Trap: What has been used as a one-scene gag in quite a few films—a man in love having to produce a fake family– has been extended to a…
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Corona Chaos: French film Huit Rue de’l Humanite—English title Stuck Together—must be among the earliest, if not the first, full length feature film about the days of lockdown during the pandemic. Directed…