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 …
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Autumn Romance: The theatre group Ank, founded by late Dinesh Thakur, was taken over by his wife Priita Mathur Thakur, and she has successfully kept the flow of old and …
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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. …