Bank Scam: It is an entirely believable scam by a private bank. Just a day’s delay in crediting a customer’s interest amount means a negligible number off in the statement,…
OTT Movie Review
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Taut Tales: Made in 1922, and after doing the film festival rounds, Anant Narayan Mahadevan’s The Storyteller finally makes it to a streaming platform (Disney+Hotstar), and would appeal to viewers who are looking…
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Meet Cute: There aren’t too many simple love stories being made these days, because romance in the time of multiple choices offered by the net can be exhausting and possibly…
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Growing Up : Shuchi Talati’s debut feature captures all the angst of growing up, the ache of desire, heartbreak and the inevitable coming of age amidst bitter drama. In Girls Will…
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News To Go: Hindi films tend to portray journalists as honest jholawalas, who often put their lives on the line to expose corruption, hold those in power accountable, fight social evils,…
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Fighting Fire: Soldiers and police officers have been lionized in many films; Rahul Dholakia’s Agni (on Amazon Prime Video) asks why firefighters, who also risk their lives to save people,…
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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…
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Old Wine: Last year’s Nyad, was the real-life story of long-distance swimmer, Diana Nyad, who at age 64, finally fulfilled her dream of swimming across the Straits of Florida, a 110-mile…
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Twin Tales: They are identical twins—Saumya and Shailee (Kriti Sanon)–but they cannot stand each other. Shailee believes her sister is a drama queen, and Saumya thinks her twin wants to…
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Gone Goa: He calls himself Sanjay Rajprakash Gupta now, the director of all those gangster dramas like Kaante and Shootout At Wadala, scaling down to a bro flick on OTT (JioCinema) with football as…