Lost Lover: The film goes into carnage mode without wasting much time.  A man enters a movie theatre, “Kaun hai tu?” someone asks. “Hero,” he replies, as the song Dhak Dhak Karne Laga plays on …

Small Town Cacophony : The set-up is unusual—a Malayali Christian family in Ratlam. A railway junction where, a character says, trains only stop at night. It is otherwise a nondescript …

Swamp Creatures: The female protagonist and antagonist of Daldal both come from backgrounds of neglect and abuse. The former, Rita Ferreira  (Bhumi Pednekar), becomes a dedicated cop, the latter a murderous psychopath, …

A Complicated Crime: The name’s Jatil, not Jatin. A name meaning complicated suits this cop; the name is eccentric mother gave him but one he wears with a defiant pride. …

The world of book lovers is celebrating the 250th birth anniversary of Jane Austen, one of the most influential writers of all time—she was born on December 16, 1775, in Steventon, Hampshire, …

Hangover Diaries: “You think you are in an American sitcom?” a character asks another in Four More Shots Please Season 4. All the characters think and act like they were in an …

Killer Cook: What distinguishes this show, a regular police procedural, is that one of the leads is a female serial killer, and she is played by Madhuri Dixit. Directed by …

Baby Blues: Bring a cute baby on board, and it’s half the battle won. Single Papa set in a nouveau riche complex of row houses in Gurugram, that is pretentiously called Buckingham …

Sports For Peace: It is a tragedy of the beautiful mountain state, that mention of Kashmir first brings to mind militancy, and then its scenic splendour. The web series, Real Kashmir …

Domestic Doom: A few years ago, Tisca Chopra had made a short film called Chutney in which an ordinary looking housewife calmly scares the hell out of a pretty woman, who she …