Cambridge  Canter: This film has the silliest meet cute imaginable. The guy is standing outside the ladies’ toilet, stopping women from going in… why? The girl manages to get past…

Timeless Romance: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s story, White Nights (1848) has been adapted so many times on screen over the decades, that it has almost become a generic love triangle. Still, Purva Naresh…

January happened to be the birth month of Cleopatra, who arguably tops the list of the most fascinating women in history. She was not the first queen, or power figure…

Bank Scam: It is an entirely believable scam by a private bank. Just a day’s delay in crediting a customer’s interest amount means  a negligible number off in the statement,…

Taut Tales: Made in 1922, and after doing the film festival rounds, Anant Narayan Mahadevan’s The Storyteller finally makes it to a streaming platform (Disney+Hotstar), and would appeal to viewers who are looking…

Meet Cute: There aren’t  too many simple love stories being made these days, because romance  in the time of multiple choices offered by the net can be exhausting and possibly…

Flyer Zone: A year ago, Fighter was the Republic Day release, the Top Gun-inspired movie that used real incidents to let loose air force planes and star glamour on the screen. This year,…

Job Vs Duty: In Season 1 of Paatal Lok, Delhi cop, Hathiram Chaudhary (Jaideep Ahlawat) was sent into a dark dungeon of crime because he was naive and dispensable. In Season 2,…

A Starry Horse: The problem with making a film to launch industry kids is that more often than not, the plot is designed to give them as much of an…

Memories Of Three Generations  The nepotism debate is dialed down quite a bit when a strong case is made for the passing on of creative genes from one generation to…