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,…
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Music First: The first season of Bandit Bandits (2020) was a family drama, with music at its centre. The story about a classical music purist Panditji (played by Naseeruddin Shah), his estranged…
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Fighting Fire: Soldiers and police officers have been lionized in many films; Rahul Dholakia’s Agni (on Amazon Prime Video) asks why firefighters, who also risk their lives to save people,…
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Dance Little Lady: After Yeh Ballet, the unusual story of two underprivileged Mumbai teens pursuing ballet, a dance form alien to their lives, Sooni Taraporevala returns to direct a web…
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Made In India: The three installments of Citadel that have dropped so far, form a jigsaw puzzle; the pieces are independent but also connected. The Citadel Universe, created by Josh Appelbaum, Bryan Oh and David Weil,…
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Bella In Versova: If Emily can go to Paris and do little more than pose in gorgeous outfits, surely Bella “Call Me Bae” can come to Mumbai and wear lovely…
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The Dashing Duo: One of the enduring mysteries of the Hindi film industry is why the Salim-Javed writing team broke up. In the three-part docuseries, Angry Young Men, produced by their…
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Carnage In Carpet Land: When the first season of Mirzapur started streaming, it brought to the small screen the kind of gore, profanity and sex that had not been seen before, because…
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Women’s World: Tahira Kashyap Khurrana’s debut feature, Sharmajee Ki Beti looks at a group of women who have nothing in common but their surname—Sharma. She intended to make a film about the…
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Merry Band Of Phulera: The fictional village of Phulera in UP, where TVF’s Panchayat is set, is a fairy-tale village, untouched by the lawlessness, casteism and misogyny that marks so much…