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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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