Trial Travails: The first season of The Trial, the adaptation of American web series, The Good Wife, had packed in a lot of drama. Noyonika (Kajol) found her life disrupted when her husband Rajiv (Jisshu…
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The Cop & The Fugitive: In an era, when cops could be trusted to go after criminals, without the help of computers and mobile phones, Inspector Zende made it to…
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The Bomb Story: Around Independence Day, there has to be at least one, if not more, film or show about patriotism. The streaming platforms have found a new way of…
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Sci-mytho-fi: In the end credits of Mandala Murders, Mahendra Jakhar’s novel The Butcher of Benaras is named as the source material. The synopsis of the 2014 book reveals an interesting plot, in which the…
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No Glitter: The good news is that this film is not a remake of the old Vijay Anand crime classic, though as a hat trip to the master, his name…
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A few years ago, there was some outrage over the discovery of a WhatsApp group by schoolboys in Delhi, on which they were sharing horribly misogynistic content about girls. Like…
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Kolkata Confidential: The title song lists the various things Bengal is famous for and then promises to show a “ek aur rang”, which is the kind of macho, gruesome violence…
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Goan Monster: The new true crime documentary, The Dupatta Killer (on Docubay), bears an uncanny resemblance to Reema Kagti’s Dahaad. Both the fictional and non-fiction shows bring out the misogyny embedded in Indian…
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Romance Undone: In case anybody entered the room late when Nadaaniyan was playing on the TV screen, they’d immediately know it was a Karan Johar (Dharmatic production). The characters look, act and…
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Food For Greed: The title is catchy enough to draw an audience into a housing society in Mumbai’s neighbour, Thane, where the residents are all employees of a pharma company…