Anybody who wants to make a comedy about a loony family and a dysfunctional hotel should watch Fawlty Towers or Schitt’s Creek—not necessarily for inspiration, but to absorb some great comedy vibes. The…
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That Redux Feel: The thriller heavy filmography of Neeraj Pandey has given him enough of a following for aspiring writer-directors to want to emulate him, but when so many filmmakers…
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The Killer Question: If a play is called Qatl, then it can be assumed it is about murder. But if it is a Makrand Deshpande play, then it cannot be a…
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Surviving Love: A few days ago, the Crime Writers’ Association announced its annual awards, and the Gold Dagger went to Una Mannion’s Tell Me What I Am, which the judges commented…
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Punjabi Pops: There’s one thing this film deserves credit for—who’d have imagined that one day the term ‘heteropaternal superfecundation’ would be used in a mainstream Hindi film! Bad Newz, directed…
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Noida Nightmare: The lack of censorship on streaming platforms means that a show like Tribhuvan Mishra CA Topper can get made. On the surface it is about a man forced to become…
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Boo That! In a country full of folklore, superstition and myths, a well made horror film is likely to work, as the recent hit Munjya showed. The now popular horror-comedy genre (Stree heralded…
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RAW Action: “Commander aata hai to Bawander aata hai,” he declares– this RAW guy, who zooms about on a motorbike that has ‘Mavrick’ stamped on it and registration number 0101.…
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Men Will Be Boys This is Punjab, but it’s also Luv Ranjan’s laddish universe, in which a bunch of overgrown boys, who ought to have adulted by their thirties, run…
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Murder In Goa: The tagline for 36 Days is ‘Secrets are injurious to health.’ The secrets point to an inordinate amount of dysfunction in a small cluster of villas tucked away somewhere…