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…
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Lights Out: A band of masked robbers very easily trip up the power grid of the whole of Pune to grab a fortune in gold. That’s just so the film…
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Hope Floats: There is a double take moment: that a film like 12th Fail has been directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra getting into Prakash Jha’s Hindi heartland territory and emerging with…
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Palace Plots: There is a purpose that spooky old palaces serve— as locations for suspense or horror thrillers. Pavan Kirpalani’s Gaslight (on Disney+Hotstar) tries to be both with mixed results. The other minor advantage…
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Pulp Fiction Daze: The leading lady of Vinil Mathew’s film Haseen Dillruba (Netflix), fed on a mental diet of lurid crime thrillers, believes that unless there is some shedding of…