OTT Movie Review

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 …

The leading man of this film, Atithi Bhooto Bhava  (on Zee5), directed by Hardik Gajjar, is a stand-up comedian, but his jokes don’t always land. The situation is pretty much …

There has been a lot of attention and analyses focussed on films from the Southern states that have been so successful all over the country, that Bollywood was shaken. But …

Wife-beaters Beware: Set in the Muslim populated area of Mumbai—the old buildings with a sense of community, where everybody minds everybody’s business, and speak a slang-y language that is peculiar …

Dull Roman Holiday: If it weren’t for one of the characters constantly chattering on social media, you’d think Love & Gelato (Netflix) was set in a world before cell phones and …

Retired, Not Redundant: Most films about senior citizens are weepies about how they have been abandoned by their selfish children; of late there have been a few about finding love …

Mumbai’s Parallel Mothers: The promo was intriguing, but unfortunately for Jalsa, it showed more or less what was worth watching in the film, because the full length of it was tedious– …

Gotta Gun: The title of Behzad Khambata’s A Thursday is obviously a hat-tip to the sleeper hit A Wednesday (2008– Neeraj Pandey) in which an angry citizen takes it upon himself to slap the …

Unreal Estate:   So, Covid19 makes its appearance in a full-length OTT feature film, 36 Farmhouse (on Zee5), written and produced by Subhash Ghai, and directed by Ram Ramesh Sharma, a product of his …

The Lucy-Desi Show: At the peak of her popularity, the Lucille Ball-starrer TV show, I Love Lucy, had 60 million viewers, which gave her the freedom to overrule the director sometimes and …