Carnage In Carpet Land: When the first season of Mirzapur started streaming, it brought to the small screen the kind of gore, profanity and sex that had not been seen before, because …
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Loss And Longing: “What kind of struggle expects women to support a cause but does not address our concerns?” A central character in Brotherless Night asks this very crucial question. The …
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Clueless Tourist: What kind of idiot would willingly go into a troubled country for a wedding anniversary trip? A privileged idiot, that’s who, the kind that thinks he is getting …
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Women’s World: Tahira Kashyap Khurrana’s debut feature, Sharmajee Ki Beti looks at a group of women who have nothing in common but their surname—Sharma. She intended to make a film about the …
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Education Mess: When the first season of Kota Factory came out in 2019, it brought the Rajasthan city to the notice of audiences, who may not have been aware of the intense …
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The Land Bhupinder ‘Bhuppi’ knows his name won’t make him a star, so he has changed it to a trendy Aryan Shaw. With a few economical strokes, producer, writer, director, …
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How do Muslim women have their voices heard in a “white supremacist, imperialist, capitalist, heteropatriarchy?” You can’t make up such a line, but Nida Manzoor has done so, to find …
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Too Many Knots: Last year there was Aakhri Sach; there was also an episode of Crime Patrol and a true crime docu series, The House Of Secrets—you’d imagine all the shock-and-chill had been squeezed …
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Unfunny Comedy: This film has not been directed by Raaj Shaandilya, but he has co-written it with director Ishrat R Khan, and is one of the producers, so some of …
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Lights Out: A band of masked robbers very easily trip up the power grid of the whole of Pune to grab a fortune in gold. That’s just so the film …