Detective At Large: Sherlock Holmes is reportedly the most portrayed fictional character in films and television, and the appeal of the eccentric pipe-smoking, violin-playing “consulting detective” just never goes away.…
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Bitter Medicine: There is not enough outrage, when kids die after drinking substandard cough syrup. Or a pharma company is accused of manufacturing improper drugs and another of exporting faulty…
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Too Many Knots: Last year there was Aakhri Sach; there was also an episode of Crime Patrol and a true crime docu series, The House Of Secrets—you’d imagine all the shock-and-chill had been squeezed…
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Lights Out: A band of masked robbers very easily trip up the power grid of the whole of Pune to grab a fortune in gold. That’s just so the film…
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Love & Prejudice: It could be seen as a small sign of progress or inclusivity that a series based on Jerry Pinto’s novel Murder In Mahim has been turned into a web…
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Sabre Rattling: Had this web series been a film running in a theatre, some of the Pak-bashing dialogue would have elicited cheers. “When Sachin Tendulkar used to hit sixers, your…
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The streaming space is full of police procedurals, and some also weave in social issues, like the new show Kaalkoot (on JioCinema). Directed by Sumit Saxena and starring current OTT darling Vijay…
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Dad On Rent: Some of the most macho leading men of Hollywood have done a film in which they had to cope with kids; the idea was comic; little tykes felling…