Vampire Diaries: A large chunk of content on Indian streaming platforms remains in such a narrow circle of crime and comedy, that when a show breaks out of it, the …

Dry Heat: For most directors, the first film must mean something special, but not everybody gets a chance to revisit it. Tigmanshu Dhulia’s 2003 film Haasil took a look at campus politics …

Spy In The House: The idea is full of potential– harried homemaker, juggling the demands of husband, child and in-laws, is actually an undercover special forces agent. Why she was …

Epic Fail: The promos give some indication of what to expect– a Baahubali-ised version of the Kalidasa epic–but still the two-and-a-half hour visual and aural punishment inflicted by Gunasekhar’s Shaakuntalam leaves the viewer …

Glitz Blitz: Mithun Chakraborty was cast by B Subhash in Disco Dancer, because of his long legs. They had to match that dance-walk John Travolta did in Saturday Night Fever.  Back in …

Daughter of theatre veterans Vijaya and Farrokh Mehta, Anahita Uberoi has grown up living and breathing theatre. After training in New York and working on Broadway for a while, she …

The Dream Seller: At a time when so many believe in letting it all hang out on social media, you’d think there’s no way to hide. But it is this …

Linguistic Love: Elders fear that young people are losing touch with their language and culture as English takes precedence as a global communication link; the internet increasingly connects the world …

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 …