Courage All The Way: The achievements of Srikanth Bolla are so remarkable, it’s a wonder a biopic was not attempted earlier. It is perhaps the OTT effect that has made…
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Colours Of Evil: The first season of Undekhi set up a watchable mix of crime and family drama—a very watered down version of The Godfather, mixed with a dash of Succession, in which one…
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Love & Prejudice: It could be seen as a small sign of progress or inclusivity that a series based on Jerry Pinto’s novel Murder In Mahim has been turned into a web…
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The Movement’s Alive: There are certain realities of women’s existence in India that everyone is aware of, even if they are privileged enough nor to have experienced discrimination or violence…
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Press Passed: The first season of The Broken News (2022), adapted from the British show Press, changed the setting from print journalism in the original, to the more visually exciting and definitely more…
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There’s nothing like a big, splashy screen project to draw attention to the past—and right now Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar, an opulent star-studded streaming show (on Netflix) has stirred up…
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Sabre Rattling: Had this web series been a film running in a theatre, some of the Pak-bashing dialogue would have elicited cheers. “When Sachin Tendulkar used to hit sixers, your…
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Summer Of Adulting: They are all Daddy’s Darlings, spoiled, privileged brats, but also sweet and cheerful; like all teenagers, more interested in fashion and boys than in books. If they…
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Crimes And Clues: Nobody believes police investigations are fun; in reality they mostly involve the tedium of interrogating recalcitrant witnesses or going over clues again and again, till there is…
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The Shining Star The mystique of Amar Singh Chamkila endures over three decades after his murder, because his rise was meteoric, and his death so sudden and brutal, that the…