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Gullak Season 3, On SonyLIV, Sheds The Stillness And Awkwardly Embraces The Drama

  • Posted on April 7, 2022April 18, 2022
  • by Rahul Desai
The drama of this season tries to reframe the Mishra world as a Panchayat portrait, where even seemingly negative characters are warm-hearted folks who close ranks during a crisis
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Rocket Boys Director Abhay Pannu On Making Science Entertaining

  • Posted on February 9, 2022
  • by Mohini Chaudhuri
The first-time director talks about not wanting to make the show a jingoistic saga, the decision to write much of the dialogue in English and the fictional characters he added in
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Rocket Boys Is A Sincere, Soaring Hat-Tip To ‘Nehru’s Mad Scientists’

  • Posted on February 4, 2022February 8, 2022
  • by Prathyush Parasuraman
Jim Sarbh plays Homi Bhabha and Ishwak Singh plays Vikram Sarabhai in Rocket Boys, set in the India between 1940-1960
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Beyond Bollywood: Bhoothakaalam Is A Layered And Moving Horror Film

  • Posted on January 26, 2022February 8, 2022
  • by Anupama Chopra
Rahul uses the tropes of horror but he roots them in a larger, richer narrative about the fraught relationship between a mother and her son
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Karkhanisanchi Waari Revels In The Glorious Messiness Of Life

  • Posted on January 17, 2022January 17, 2022
  • by Anupama Chopra
Director Mangesh Joshi, who has written the film with Archana Borhade, expertly juggles humour with heartbreak
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Thinkalazhcha Nischayam, On Sony LIV, Finds Humour In The Mundane

  • Posted on January 13, 2022January 12, 2022
  • by Anupama Chopra
Even when tempers and voices are raised, the film doesn’t resort to melodrama. It’s like watching life unfold but always with an affectionate gaze
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Tabbar, On Sony LIV Is A Viscerally Dark, Hard Hitting Crime Thriller

  • Posted on December 25, 2021December 24, 2021
  • by Aranav Das
It succeeds in being empathetic yet cruel towards its characters, pushing the conventional limit of a crime thriller series
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Best Hindi Web Shows of 2021, Ranked

  • Posted on December 22, 2021December 22, 2021
  • by Rahul Desai
This year may not have been as good as 2020 for Hindi web shows. That said, even the blatantly flawed shows this year conveyed ambition
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A ‘duplex’ film told without a semblance of intellectual honesty

  • Posted on October 30, 2021
  • by Ranjani Krishnakumar
Given that this is a duplex film — two films for the price of one — I demand twice my money back
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Tabbar Is A Well-Crafted Ode To The Trappings Of Middle-Class Morality

  • Posted on October 15, 2021November 22, 2021
  • by Rahul Desai
Tabbar works even when it doesn’t, for it reflects the disquiet of middle-Indian aspiration by focusing on the individualism – rather than systemic fury – of survival
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Shantit Kranti, On Sony LIV, Is A Breezy Buddy Comedy With Gravitas

  • Posted on October 7, 2021October 7, 2021
  • by Yash Pawaskar
A road trip takes a U-turn when instead of going to Goa, three friends end up in an ashram in Lonavala
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A beautifully layered drama with a contained Suraj performance

  • Posted on September 18, 2021September 19, 2021
  • by Baradwaj Rangan
The reason the movie worked so beautifully is because it reminds us constantly of how flawed we are as human beings and how it is those flaws that make us human beings
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