Forest Frontier: The new web series, Poacher (Amazon Prime Video), directed by Richie Mehta (Delhi Crime), shows once again that the country would have been hollowed out by apathy and corruption, were…
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Love All: The Modern Love series, based on true romances, proved to be successful in its American version, and also in the Indian offshoots. Dharmatic Entertainment’s new unscripted series, Love Storiyaan, picks the same…
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All Copped Out: The creator of Bollywood’s cop universe makes a web series, you expect swag to hurtle out of the screen. Rohit Shetty’s Indian Police Force takes itself much too seriously…
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Heartbreak Scam: If there is a lucrative field left unregulated, conmen will inevitably worm their way in. The wedding industry in India, according to figures provided by Amazon Prime Video’s…
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Lost Childhood Before every film there’s a disclaimer saying no animals were harmed during the making of the film, but there’s nothing for children, says a casting agent First Act,…
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Back To Gangland: Had Shehar Lakhot been made at the start of the OTT boom, there might have been some incentive to watch it. Now, after dozens of small town shenanigans involving…
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That Floating Tank: This is, says the narrator of the film, “my love story with Pippa.” It’s not a woman but a battle tank, the PT-76 that is the object…
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Many Shades Of Love: When there are still so many prejudices and misconceptions about the LGBTQIA+ community in India, not to mention all the legal dithering, it was brave of…
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Vagabond Virus: A Tamilian private detective, Meenakshi Iyer, living and working in Kolkata—this detail has no bearing on the web series, P.I. Meena, named after her, except perhaps to establish that the…
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More Murderous Mayhem: The first season of Duranga, based on the Korean series The Flower of Evil, directed by the late Pradeep Sarkar and Aijaz Khan, had the intriguing premise of a…