Rich And Restless: Back in the Eighties, two soap operas were quite a rage Dallas and Dynasty, both about rich, feuding families. They were so successful they triggered off a spate of copy…
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Growing Up Pains: Every OTT platform bungs in a couple of ‘youth programmes’ into its slate of shows, and most of them look and sound similar, possibly because the problems…
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Alcott In Korea: Romantic soap operas and crime thrillers from Korea have caught on with viewers everywhere; it’s interesting to come across a modern…
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Tragedy Queen: This year marked the sixtieth anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death, and because it is still shrouded in mystery, there has always been a ghoulish interest in the events…
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Bitter Memories: Very few films have been made about the genocide of Sikhs in 1984, after the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguard. With the tinderbox mentality…
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The Great Indian Scam: The first season of Netflix series Jamtara: Sabka Number Ayega (2020) was an eye-opener about a nondescript town in Jharkhand becoming the centre of a major phishing…
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The audience numbers must have been respectable enough for the powers that be at Netflix to commission a second season of The Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives, which, along with Indian Matchmaking,…
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Heart Of Darkness: The first season of Delhi Crime (2019) hit the right buttons, coming out when the horror of the 2012 Nirbhaya rape case had not yet slid out of the…
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Wife-beaters Beware: Set in the Muslim populated area of Mumbai—the old buildings with a sense of community, where everybody minds everybody’s business, and speak a slang-y language that is peculiar…
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Style Files: Masaba Masaba starred the mother-daughter team of Neena and Masaba Gupta, playing fictionalized versions of themselves, and giving the show a likeable reality show vibe. Now Season 2 (Netflix) is…