The Front Page: An admiring colleague calls her “bulldozer without brakes.” Jagruti Pathak was a tenacious journalist and the world, then as now, tries to trip up successful women. Hansal…
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Return Of The Demon: The second season dropping more than three years after the first means that the memory of Asur: Welcome To Your Dark Side has dimmed. It would have fallen…
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More Mughal Mayhem: The second season of the Taj series drops on ZEE5 not too long after the first. Taj: Reign Of Revenge, starts 15 years after Divided By Blood. Nobody seems to have…
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Hijack Ahoy: When strapped for thriller ideas, a director is most likely to pick a gangster plot, but if a dash of patriotism is needed, there’s always a terrorist or…
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Political Maze: Two middle-aged politicians are in bed. “Do you want to be Prime Minister?” he asks her. “No, I want power without scrutiny,” she replies. Then she asks him…
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Winter Tale: It is a good thing that the second season of Yeh Meri Family has just five episodes, because once the cuteness of ordinary family squabbles wears out, there’s not much…
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Roar For Rights: She is cat-called as she rides around town on her motorbike; at the cop station where she works, a colleague lights incense to ‘purify’ the room she…
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Running Riot In Rann Pradesh: The constant criticism of machismo in crime shows on OTT must have given Homi Adajania the idea of making a show with women playing men—not…
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Spy Vs Spy: There is added interest in the Russo Brothers’ spy thriller Citadel, because it stars Priyanka Chopra Jonas. There is also an Indian version of the franchise in the making,…
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M For Macabre: A man kills his wife by burying her alive, and till he is caught, he literally dances on her grave at parties he hosts. This ghoulish image…