Political Cauldron: The idea of youthful radicalism and armed struggles against an unjust establishment has been with Sudhir Mishra since his first film, Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin (1987), and he returned…
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Business Lessons: The Shark Tank franchise has been successful in about 27 countries, but when it arrived in India, the timing was right. The COVID pandemic had turned so many lives upside…
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That slang word in the title Faadu A Love Story is usually combined with another to form an obscenity. Does a series (on SonyLiv) directed by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari and written by…
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A Dull Season: The new season of any series should not assume that audiences have seen the previous ones. There should be a way of taking the plot forward, without…
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Flaring Tension: Israel has steadily been making web shows that have appealed to international audiences, with remakes produced in the US (Homeland) and India (Hostages, Your Honour); Fauda has been the…
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No Redeeming Features: In the British TV series, Fleabag, the protagonist says this of herself, “I have a horrible feeling that I’m a greedy, perverted, selfish, apathetic, cynical, depraved, morally bankrupt woman who can’t…
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Youthful Capers: The new TVF web series, College Romance Season 3 (on SonyLiv), is aimed at teens, but maybe parents should watch to see what their college-going kids are up to,…
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Cracking The Whip: The constant real life political dramas in Bihar could fuel a number of web series; with Maharani, Subhash Kapoor just knew which vein of the mine to tap.…
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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…
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Small Town Quack: This eight-part web series (on SonyLiv) is set in the late 1990s, maybe because there was more squeamishness and ignorance about sexual matters then as compared to…