Crimes And Clues: Nobody believes police investigations are fun; in reality they mostly involve the tedium of interrogating recalcitrant witnesses or going over clues again and again, till there is…
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The Shining Star The mystique of Amar Singh Chamkila endures over three decades after his murder, because his rise was meteoric, and his death so sudden and brutal, that the…
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Army Of One: There are sporadic media reports on the horrific abuse of girls in orphanages and shelter homes – the helpless minors exploited by the very people tasked with…
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Star Spangled Nostalgia: It took a lot of jumping through cultural hoops to fit the very American Archies comics ethos into India. The comics about the antics of the pimpled…
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Beware Of Girlpower: This woman-on-rampage film seems to have been made to fulfill a year-end quota or something like that, because Apurva written and directed by Nikhil Nagesh Bhat (streaming on Disney+Hotstar), looks…
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That Floating Tank: This is, says the narrator of the film, “my love story with Pippa.” It’s not a woman but a battle tank, the PT-76 that is the object…
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Whacking Moles: It’s good to note that the genre of the espionage thriller is catching on with OTT platforms, even though most of the stories belong to the past. Are…
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Rise Of The Loser: Mainstream Hindi cinema may be slow to catch on to the complexities of a rapidly changing Indian society, but does understand easy slogans like ‘Follow Your…
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Couple Wars: The idea is as audacious as it is preposterous, which is what makes Bawaal worth a look. The promo had intrigued viewers– what is the World War II connection with…
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Dad On Rent: Some of the most macho leading men of Hollywood have done a film in which they had to cope with kids; the idea was comic; little tykes felling…