Dynasty Muddles: From the era of Dynasty down to the recent Succession, it is, kind of, inevitable that a wealthy family will be greedy, ruthless and degenerate. It is not surprising that the…
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More Gone Girls: The 2021 film Chhorii, used the horror format to make a comment on the gruesome practice of female infanticide. A woman found herself trapped in a village in the…
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A few years ago, there was some outrage over the discovery of a WhatsApp group by schoolboys in Delhi, on which they were sharing horribly misogynistic content about girls. Like…
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Slithering Away: Sleuth (1970) is Anthony Shaffer’s most famous play—it has had multiple stage productions in various languages; it has been filmed twice—the first in 1972 by Joseph L Mankiewicz…
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Little Shine: The first season of Rohit Jugraj’s Chamak was a celebration of the music of Punjab, couched in a fictionalised version of the sensational and unsolved murder of legendary folk singer…
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The Original Mr Bharat: A look at Upkar, Manoj Kumar’s first film as director– a tribute to the star-filmmaker who passed away on April 4. At the peak of his…
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Kolkata Confidential: The title song lists the various things Bengal is famous for and then promises to show a “ek aur rang”, which is the kind of macho, gruesome violence…
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Gangs Of Vancouver: This crime show is set in Canada, and is titled Kanneda, because that’s how Punjabis pronounce it. The characters are Punjabi migrants who have settled in Vancouver, after…
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Goan Monster: The new true crime documentary, The Dupatta Killer (on Docubay), bears an uncanny resemblance to Reema Kagti’s Dahaad. Both the fictional and non-fiction shows bring out the misogyny embedded in Indian…
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Guns And Heists: In 1995, the arms drop in Purulia had caused quite a sensation. The man, responsible for it, who gave himself the swashbuckling name of Kim Davy, was…