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 …
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Bitter Medicine: There is not enough outrage, when kids die after drinking substandard cough syrup. Or a pharma company is accused of manufacturing improper drugs and another of exporting faulty …
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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 …