Web Series Review

Copy Cats: Producers of web series have latched on to education scams, like there was no other problem worth looking at in the country. Shiksha Mandal throws political, police and gangster shenanigans…

Youthful Capers: The new TVF web series, College Romance Season 3 (on SonyLiv), is aimed at teens, but maybe parents should watch to see what their college-going kids are up to,…

Beware Of Arrows: It’s Robin Hood country—Sherwood forest in Nottinghamshire—the facile use of the name irks a local cop investigating a killer, who uses the folk hero’s weapon of crossbow-and-arrow. The…

Youth Pangs: The ten-part docuseries, Growing Up, created and executive produced by actress Brie Larson, has an interesting concept. The format is like a group therapy session in which a bunch of…

The audience numbers must have been respectable enough for the powers that be at Netflix to commission a second season of The Fabulous Lives of  Bollywood Wives, which, along with Indian Matchmaking,…

Forever Svelte: Jane Seymour was once a Bond girl named Solitaire, in the 1973 film, Live and Let Die, and was also written about much for her heterochromia, or simply put, different…

Cracking The Whip: The constant real life political dramas in Bihar could fuel a number of web series; with Maharani, Subhash Kapoor just knew which vein of the mine to tap.…

Heart Of Darkness: The first season of Delhi Crime (2019) hit the right buttons, coming out when the horror of the 2012 Nirbhaya rape case had not yet slid out of the…

Extreme Evil : When family members of criminals claim they were unaware of the reality of their loved ones, people are usually skeptical; that’s why the premise of Duranga, the new Zee5…

Family Shenanigans: With classic family sitcoms like Dekh Bhai Dekh, Yeh Jo Hai  Zindagi, Sarabhai vs Sarabhai always fresh in TV fans’ memory, Mind The Malhotras had a tough act to follow. The Indian version…