OTT Movie Review

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…

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…

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…

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…

Be Very Careful: In spite of reading warnings about online frauds and invasion of privacy,  most people are lax about security.  Nobody reads the terms and conditions before clicking on…

Murders  Most Foul: The Nithari Killings of 2006 had pierced India’s doesn’t-happen-here complacency.  The sensational case of murder, sex, cannibalism, necrophilia in a nondescript area of Noida had dominated the…

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…

Boo That! In a country full of folklore, superstition and myths, a well made horror film is likely to work, as the recent hit Munjya showed. The now popular horror-comedy genre (Stree heralded…

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…

Women’s World: Tahira Kashyap Khurrana’s debut feature, Sharmajee Ki Beti looks at a group of women who have nothing in common but their surname—Sharma. She intended to make a film about the…