Whacking Moles: It’s good to note that the genre of the espionage thriller is catching on with OTT platforms, even though most of the stories belong to the past. Are…
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Wedding Woes: There is an ad for a clothing brand that has a popular star tell guests at a wedding, who have come in subdued formals, “Shaadi mein aaye hain,…
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Girl Interrupted: For some reason filmmakers believe that drinking is a sign of modernity; not just drinking, but downing so many drinks that the binge results in hangovers, puking, blackouts.…
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The first season of Mumbai Diaries got all its chosen elements right—a high-strung medical drama set in a hospital, when the 26/11 terrorist attacks took place. One of the targets of the…
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Rise Of The Loser: Mainstream Hindi cinema may be slow to catch on to the complexities of a rapidly changing Indian society, but does understand easy slogans like ‘Follow Your…
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Whitewash Time: In Mumbai slang, choona lagana is to fool or con someone. Which is what six men do to a politician against whom they all hold a valid grudge. The heist caper…
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That Christie Gal: There have been unofficial Hindi film adaptations of Agatha Christie’s novels—like Gumnaam and Dhund—but for the first time, Agatha Christie Limited, which handles the author’s estate, has franchised one of her…
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The Man, The Poet: There have been plays about Sahir Ludhianvi, but they have been about his romance with Amrita Pritam, or there have plays about Pritam in which Sahir…
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Runaway Bride: As a tribute to Waheeda Rehman for winning this year’s Dadasaheb Phalke Award, a flashback to one of her early films: Dev Anand was already a top star…
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The Dev Debut: As a tribute to Dev Anand on his birth centenary, a flashback to his very first film. Although it is best known as the film in which…