Double Trouble: Like the lead character in the film RK/RKAY, writer-director-actor Rajat Kapoor makes small, interesting films that win critical acclaim and do the festival rounds, but, as a snippy assistant…
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Small Town Quack: This eight-part web series (on SonyLiv) is set in the late 1990s, maybe because there was more squeamishness and ignorance about sexual matters then as compared to…
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In fiction, the mother-in-law stands beside the stepmother as the monster in the family. The image may be stereotypical and often unfair, but it is inspired by stories from real…
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Laugh It Off: It’s risky to be a stand-up comic these days, which has taken some of the sting out of the comedy and Comicstaan Season 3 (created by OML) has to…
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Over The Rainbow: There was a time, not too long ago, when live-in relationships were considered the height of boldness, and people talked in subdued tones about homosexuals. Now, there…
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Adventures In Serbia: The first Indian to have appeared on the Bear Grylls adventure show was PM Narendra Modi, who looked quite blase at all the excitement the host tried to…
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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…