In A Pickle: The shows produced by The Viral Factory (TVF) have taken viewers into their fictional version of the real India, and made the joys and troubles of common folk…
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Two Much: Made at the height of the pandemic, there was an element of thrill, not so much in the plot, as in the way The Gone Game (Voot Select) was shot mostly by the…
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In a new web series, Intimacy, a woman facing a difficult situation and trying to fight back, is told by an older colleague that she put up with sexual harassment…
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Macho Bore: There was a warning sign right away, when a suburban moviehall decided to cancel a screening of Rashtra Kavach Om, because they needed at least eight people, and there…
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The Arconians Are Back: In the very popular first season of Only Murders In The Building (Disney+Hotstar), (https://deepagahlot.com/only-murders-in-the-building-web-series-review/) the unlikely trio of Martin Short, Steve Martin and Selena Gomez– all loners…
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Follow The Money: The Shiv Aroor-Rahul Singh India’s Most Fearless books, about modern military heroes, have already provided material for two army-centric web shows on SonyLiv. The first season, Avrodh: The…
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Folly In The Forest: In India, if there is a government scheme for the poor, there has to be a scam attached to it. Srijit Mukherji’s film Sherdil: The Pilibhit Saga,…
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Dull Roman Holiday: If it weren’t for one of the characters constantly chattering on social media, you’d think Love & Gelato (Netflix) was set in a world before cell phones and…
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Troubled Blood: The series Blood, created by Sophie Petzal, set in lush Ireland, hiding family dysfunction, poetic gloom and Catholic guilt is transported, somewhat uneasily to sunny Falauli village in Punjab,…
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June 1972 marked the beginning of what came to be known as the Watergate Scandal, in which then President Richard Nixon and his coterie were caught for their involvement in…