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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Education Mess: When the first season of Kota Factory came out in 2019, it brought the Rajasthan city to the notice of audiences, who may not have been aware of the intense…

The Land Bhupinder ‘Bhuppi’ knows his name won’t make him a star, so he has changed it to a trendy Aryan Shaw. With a few economical strokes, producer, writer, director,…

How do Muslim women have their voices heard in a “white supremacist, imperialist, capitalist, heteropatriarchy?”  You can’t make up such a line, but Nida Manzoor has done so, to find…

Too Many Knots: Last year there was Aakhri Sach; there was also an episode of Crime Patrol and a true crime docu series, The House Of Secrets—you’d imagine all the shock-and-chill had been squeezed…

Unfunny Comedy: This film has not been directed by Raaj Shaandilya, but he has co-written it with director Ishrat R Khan, and is one of the producers, so some of…