Web Series Review

Job Vs Duty: In Season 1 of Paatal Lok, Delhi cop, Hathiram Chaudhary (Jaideep Ahlawat) was sent into a dark dungeon of crime because he was naive and dispensable. In Season 2,…

Memories Of Three Generations  The nepotism debate is dialed down quite a bit when a strong case is made for the passing on of creative genes from one generation to…

Hell On Earth: A fresh faced law graduate takes the job of a jailer in Delhi’s hellhole, Tihar Jail, because that is the only job available at the employment exchange,…

Shadow Play: A small police station in serene Panchgani. Not much crime except maybe theft. Then a man walks in claiming his wife is missing. It does not seem possible,…

Music First: The first season of Bandit Bandits (2020) was a family drama, with music at its centre. The story about a classical music purist Panditji (played by Naseeruddin Shah), his estranged…

Dance Little Lady: After Yeh Ballet, the unusual story of two underprivileged Mumbai teens pursuing ballet, a dance form alien to their lives, Sooni Taraporevala returns to direct a  web…

Some More Chaos: It did not make much sense to truncate Tanaav Season 2 into two parts; at least the second comes before the first part has slipped out of memory. A…

The Plot Congeals: The novelty factor in the first season of Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein was that a man was lusted after by a woman, instead of the other way round.…

History Recharged: The book by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre was a bestseller in 1975—Freedom At Midnight told the story of the period just before India attained freedom from British Rule,…

Made In India: The three installments of Citadel that have dropped so far, form a jigsaw puzzle; the pieces are independent but also connected. The Citadel Universe, created by Josh Appelbaum, Bryan Oh and David Weil,…