That Femme Again: The 2021 film, Hasseen Dillruba, directed by Vinil Mathew, was based on the germ of an idea from Roald Dahl’s twisted thriller, Lamb To The Slaughter. It ended with the murder…
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Noida Nightmare: The lack of censorship on streaming platforms means that a show like Tribhuvan Mishra CA Topper can get made. On the surface it is about a man forced to become…
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Men Will Be Boys This is Punjab, but it’s also Luv Ranjan’s laddish universe, in which a bunch of overgrown boys, who ought to have adulted by their thirties, run…
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Education Mess: When the first season of Kota Factory came out in 2019, it brought the Rajasthan city to the notice of audiences, who may not have been aware of the intense…
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The Shining Star The mystique of Amar Singh Chamkila endures over three decades after his murder, because his rise was meteoric, and his death so sudden and brutal, that the…
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A Maze Of Deceit: The Sheena Bora murder case had all the ingredients that makes the media salivate and the viewer watch in horror as shocking details unfold. It was…
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Army Of One: There are sporadic media reports on the horrific abuse of girls in orphanages and shelter homes – the helpless minors exploited by the very people tasked with…
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Hold The Salt: A series that stars Konkona Sensharma and Manoj Bajpayee would be worth a watch anyway, even if it turns out to be enjoyable and disappointing in equal…
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Star Spangled Nostalgia: It took a lot of jumping through cultural hoops to fit the very American Archies comics ethos into India. The comics about the antics of the pimpled…
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A Few Good People: Had such a tragedy occurred anywhere else in the world, there would have been dozens of films made on it, but the world’s largest industrial disaster,…