Hope Floats: There is a double take moment: that a film like 12th Fail has been directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra getting into Prakash Jha’s Hindi heartland territory and emerging with …
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More Murderous Mayhem: The first season of Duranga, based on the Korean series The Flower of Evil, directed by the late Pradeep Sarkar and Aijaz Khan, had the intriguing premise of a …
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Cousins And Buddies: A simplified version of Anjali Menon’s Malayalam film, Bangalore Days, Yaariyan 2, directed by Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru is a collection of music videos with a bare minimum …
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Struggles Of An Immigrant: Not too long ago, the Nepali security guard was ubiquitous in a city like Mumbai, where almost every apartment complex employed a succession of men called …
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Domestic Unrest: The first season of Permanent Roommates, created by Arunabh Kumar, founder of The Viral Fever (TVF), was the first show released online, on YouTube, in 2013, before the …
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Rogue Virus: The Netflix show, Kaala Paani, makes all the right au courant noises, particularly significant after the Covid pandemic. Set in 2027 in the beautiful Andaman & Nicobar Islands, the …
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The Land Of Fixers: The title might give the idea that the is about royalty, but it’s just the Bollywood tendency of giving grandiose titles to thugs and gangsters. In …
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Sow The Whirlwind: When television and social media are all-pervasive today, and instead of clearing facts are being used to spread misinformation, Shiladitya Bora’s Bhagwan Bharose (with Ab Toh Sab …
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Instaready Romance: Based on a novel by Ishita Peerbhoy, this Amazon miniTV show is about a woman’s search for The One. Riya (Maanvi Gagroo) is the kind of over-planning OCD-afflicted …
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Two recent screen projects—Charlie Chopra And The Mystery Of Solang Valley in India and A Haunting In Venice in the UK—point to the continuing popularity of Agatha Christie, nearly half …