Adventures In Serbia: The first Indian to have appeared on the Bear Grylls adventure show was PM Narendra Modi, who looked quite blase at all the excitement the host tried to…
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Girl Uninterrupted: The first season of She, written by Imtiaz Ali, had the faintly intriguing premise of a young and timid constable, Bhumika Pardeshi (Aaditi Pohankar), sent undercover as a sex worker…
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The wickedly pulpy Bollywoodian crime-revenge-family drama, Savage Beauty, is a kind of Succession, set in South Africa, with Black actors. If in American shows, the characters are all look sleek, clad…
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Don’t Mess With Mom: The six-part series, Mai, begins with Sheel sweeping the house, washing and drying clothes, cooking, to establish that the woman (Sakshi Tanwar) is an ‘ordinary’ homemaker. As…
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Pass Class: Harit Pradesh could stand in for any North Indian state, where uneducated and corrupt politicians rule, and amass a great number of followers, for whom showmanship and oratory…
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Secrets & Lies: Karin Slaughter’s bestselling novel, Pieces Of Her, has quite a few familiar thriller elements—a person’s past suddenly springing up and unending the present; a feckless young women, coasting through life,…
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Annus Horribilis: Humour could be the only way of coping with the troubles and absurdities of the year gone by. Carrying on the tradition set with last year’s satirical Death To…
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Monsters On The Mind: Raveena Tandon is the star attraction of Aranyak– the glamorous actress, who took a long sabbatical (nobody really retires these days), returns with this OTT series (on…
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When In Madurai…: A Hindi film set in Madurai amidst a conservative Tamil family is an odd bird before its strange plot unfolds. The only difference between this and any…
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Corona Chaos: French film Huit Rue de’l Humanite—English title Stuck Together—must be among the earliest, if not the first, full length feature film about the days of lockdown during the pandemic. Directed…