Sepia-Tinted Past: An earlier Amazon Prime show, Cinema Marte Dum Tak, had used the documentary format to reminisce about the the B movie industry of the Eighties and Nineties. It is good…

Crime &  Punishment: This film claims to have been inspired by true events, a slew of believe-it-or-not cases all over the world (some listed at the end), in which murderers…

Puppy Love: This teen romance streaming on Amazon Mini TV exists in a fluffy cloud of innocence; were it not for the constant use of cell phones, laptops and social…

“The problem with being a wife is being a wife,” writes Carmela Ciuraru in the introduction of her painstakingly researched and very readable book, Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages,…

When it comes to the misfortunes of others, we have very short memories. The cases of atrocities against women do not even get adequate media coverage—it’s like everybody wakes up…

Palace Plots: There is a purpose that spooky old palaces serve— as locations for suspense or horror thrillers. Pavan Kirpalani’s Gaslight (on Disney+Hotstar) tries to be both with mixed results. The other minor advantage…

Faceless Mob: Looking at the signs of prosperity, at least in urban India, it seems as if people are eager to forget the trauma of the Covid months. Typically, those…

Twisty Turns: The film starts with such routine man stalking-wooing-winning woman sequences, that it is impossible to anticipate what is to come next in Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga (the title comes…

Unbreakable Cop: The guy is shot at, stabbed, blown up, has a kidney extracted, but all he does is grimace and come up with some stream of consciousness philosophising. The…

When Kaz Met Zoe: This is multi-cultural Britain, where the Khan family of Pakistani origin and a white British family live next door to each other, without any overt signs…