Slithering Away: Sleuth (1970) is Anthony Shaffer’s most famous play—it has had multiple stage productions in various languages; it has been filmed twice—the first in 1972 by Joseph L Mankiewicz…
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Unlikely Heroes: In the midst of a plethora of OTT shows on fights against terrorism, if anything, Anubhav Sinha’s new series (on Netflix) proves that heroes don’t have to be…
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Cranky Old Men: A play about two cantankerous old men bickering ought not to be so hilarious, but it is, because there’s Neil Simon’s genius at work– the playwright could…
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Bad Cop vs Bad Cop: It is baffling. Why would a young director choose to make his debut with a film, as derivative and inane as Kuttey? Nearly thirty years…
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Family Secrets: The first season of Tripling came out in 2016, when the virus had not opened up the OTT Pandora’s box. The content was so different from the melodramatic and old-fashioned…
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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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The Sad Clown: “An artiste performs for himself, and people watch him,” says the lead character in Nitin Kakkar’s gem of a film, Ramsingh Charlie. He plays a Chaplin impersonator…
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As Kumud Mishra starrer Ramsingh Charlie starts streaming, revisiting an interview done in the past with the actor, talking about his work on stage. Kumud Mishra is currently the finest…