Dissonant Notes: On watching Anvitaa Dutt’s second film, Qala, it is clear that she has the cinematic approach of an aesthete. Like her earlier film, Bulbbul, this one too is …
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Again Badlands Of Bihar: This Netflix series produced and written by Neeraj Pandey is based on the book, Bihar Diaries: The True Story of How Bihar’s Most Dangerous Criminal was …
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Royal Shenanigans: Coming out as it does a few weeks after the death of Queen Elizabeth II (and some months after Prince Philip’s passing) the beginning of Season 5 of The …
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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, …
