Toxin Factory: Rating: *** Vandana Kataria’s debut feature Noblemen, is set in an elite boys’ boarding school, and zeroes in accurately on what makes some men so toxic. The strange…
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Psycho Alert So, this chain-smoking doctor with ‘anger management’ issues, sees a girl, as she is walking single-file with other female medical students, eyes down, demure gait. He falls in…
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Cooking Up Drama Pakistani film, Cake, was streamed recently to an appreciative audience. The Asim Abbasi film, was released in the UK, and was the country’s entry for the Academy Awards.…
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Slow Motion Mein It is a grandiose idea—linking the fate of a man called Bharat to the story of India. If Ali Abbas Zafar wanted to pull it off, maybe he should…
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Art Has No Religion Characters in Zaigham Imam’s Nakkash, say with an air of fear or apology that the “mahaul” has changed. Which means that in Varanasi, where it was not unusual for…
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Babe In The Hood The first original Indian film that Netflix presents is Chopsticks, directed by Sachin Yardi, whose writing credits include the Kya Kool Hain Hum films, and he directed something called C Kkommpany, so obviously…
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How To Catch A Terrorist This intelligence officer finally corners the man he has been tracking; he has been warned that pursuers are on the way to the location, but…
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De De Pyaar De—maybe marginally less misogynistic than Luv Ranjan’s earlier films– has been produced by him, and directed by Akiv Ali. It is supposedly a comedy about an older…
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Dholakpur To China The character of Chhota Bheem, the ladoo-eating hero of Dholakpur, has a fan following among kids, and it always interesting to see what the Indian animation industry…
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It says nothing for our country’s education system, if students in an elite college in Dehradun, have no other dreams than to win dance and kabaddi competitions. Which would lead…