Animal Crackers: This film with its animal-loving protagonist, is so earnest, that with a few tweaks, it could make for a sweet children’s film, with a message about treating animals…
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The brouhaha over the colour of the bikini worn in a song from an upcoming film, misses the more important issue of the way a woman is made to look…
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Magic App: In this age of chasing after wealth, there’s a web show that says Greed is Bad. Taaza Khabar (Disney+Hotstar) is the acting debut of YouTube comedy star Bhuvan Bam,…
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Business Lessons: The Shark Tank franchise has been successful in about 27 countries, but when it arrived in India, the timing was right. The COVID pandemic had turned so many lives upside…
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Closed Door Mystery: Based on the French film, 8 Femmes (2002), the biggest attraction of this closed door Italian murder mystery, 7 Women And A Murder, is getting seven stars together in one mansion.…
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City Of Style: The creator of Emily In Paris is Darren Star, the man who thought up Sex And The City (also the less popular Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place and Younger), so it should be obvious that…
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In The Maze: Pitchers (2015) was among the first OTT series made by The Viral Fever (TVF), the company that was a clutter-breaker in the age of saas-bahu serials on television, that did…
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Double Whammy: It is very difficult to go wrong with a film based on Shakespeare’s A Comedy Of Errors, which inspired a wonderful Kishore Kumar-Asit Sen comedy Do Dooni Chaar (1968), which, one…
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December 16 happens to be the birth anniversary of Jane Austen, one of the most famous writers of her time. She died at the age of 41, leaving six full-length…
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Dance To Thrill: The lead character, Govind, wants an ‘A’ added to his name, and this film wants to be a David Dhawan style comedy-caper. But, as it often happens,…