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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Screwball Night: The formula of the chase film has been set—seen in the recent Netflix movie Back In Action, and now in Dhoom Dhaam, also on Netflix.  Two (or more) people go on…

Memories Of Three Generations  The nepotism debate is dialed down quite a bit when a strong case is made for the passing on of creative genes from one generation to…

Hell On Earth: A fresh faced law graduate takes the job of a jailer in Delhi’s hellhole, Tihar Jail, because that is the only job available at the employment exchange,…

The Heist: It seems entirely possible that the clever title was thought up first, and then a script written around a character called Sikandar, whose fate is like a drunken…