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 …
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When The Kashmir Files was screened at the International Film Festival of India last year, the jury chairman, Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid had called it vulgar propaganda and sparked a controversy. By then …
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Jungle Beats: The effect of climate change has been a subject of Nila Madhab Panda’s earlier films, like . His first OTT project, The Jengaburu Curse is set in Odisha, which is …
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The streaming space is full of police procedurals, and some also weave in social issues, like the new show Kaalkoot (on JioCinema). Directed by Sumit Saxena and starring current OTT darling Vijay …