Rogue Virus: The Netflix show, Kaala Paani, makes all the right au courant noises, particularly significant after the Covid pandemic. Set in 2027 in the beautiful Andaman & Nicobar Islands, the…
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The Land Of Fixers: The title might give the idea that the is about royalty, but it’s just the Bollywood tendency of giving grandiose titles to thugs and gangsters. In…
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Instaready Romance: Based on a novel by Ishita Peerbhoy, this Amazon miniTV show is about a woman’s search for The One. Riya (Maanvi Gagroo) is the kind of over-planning OCD-afflicted…
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Whitewash Time: In Mumbai slang, choona lagana is to fool or con someone. Which is what six men do to a politician against whom they all hold a valid grudge. The heist caper…
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Money Hodge Podge: There have been at least two recent web shows that made money trails interesting– Scam 1992 and Scam 2003. Bejoy Nambiar picks up the intriguing idea of large sums of…
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Follow The Money: After Scam 1992 and Scoop, Hansal Mehta has cemented his place as a long-form chronicler of the moral erosion of contemporary India. He has not directed Scam 2003: The Telgi Story,…
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Into The Spyverse: A young Mumbai woman, Aliya (Kashmira Pardeshi), finds herself trapped in Syria with her husband and in-laws who have been radicalized and thrown in their lot with…
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Grisly Case: The gruesome deaths of 11 members of a family, ages ranging from nine to 71, that came to be known as the Burari Case, was a shocker at…
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Retro Trip: The cars are Ambassadors and Fiats, the phones are rotary; there are STD phone booths with LCD panels displaying call duration, cassette players and tapes are still around,…
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The Good Fight Ravi Jadhav has been making Marathi films with unusual subjects—including the powerful Natrang (2009) about a man who plays the nachya (eunuch) in a traditional lavni troupe and Nude (2018) about a woman who strips…