Web Series Review

Trial Travails: The first season of The Trial, the adaptation of American web series, The Good Wife, had packed in a lot of drama. Noyonika (Kajol) found her life disrupted when her husband Rajiv (Jisshu …

Nepo Grande: A star daughter asks for sugar and a spoon with her coffee, an ‘outsider’ newbie comments, “You already have a spoon… a silver spoon.” Aryan Khan who has …

Beer Cheer: Two attractive women go on pub crawls in Gurugram, dressed in sexy outfits, and don’t get groped! That in itself goes into fairy tale territory. Do You Wanna …

Noughts  & Crosses Becoming a Chartered Accountant (CA) is tough, and sometimes takes several attempts to crack it; so full sympathy for young students, who keep their lives on hold …

The Bomb Story: Around Independence Day, there has to be at least one, if not more, film or show about patriotism. The streaming platforms have found a new way of …

Lights Off: The sci-fi-paranormal horror series, Andhera, starts by introducing the idea that darkness is devouring the city, which is entirely believable. Then goes into a dizzying maze of subplots from which …

Spy v/s Spy The deadpan spy, whose facial muscles move only when he is in disguise, is code named Salakaar (advisor) in Faruk Kabir’s web series of the same name. The show (on …

Bicker Central: There are the overdone kitchen sink dramas that are still popular on television, and then the small family comedies, of which a large chunk of the has been …

Sci-mytho-fi: In the end credits of Mandala Murders, Mahendra Jakhar’s novel The Butcher of Benaras is named as the source material. The synopsis of the 2014 book reveals an interesting plot, in which the …

Landing On Earth: If not mainstream Bollywood, at least through streaming platforms urban India is getting a look at how rural India functions.  The Panchayat seasons and a few others like it, …