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What’s Missing Amid All the Kissing
By Befikre, did Aditya Chopra actually mean a movie without a sensible story, good music, or memorable characters? Or does the film actually have ideas.
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Checking on Bitoo and Shruti, Nine Years After Band Baaja Baaraat
We managed to get hold of Bitoo Sharma and Shruti Kakkar’s marriage counsellor, who, on the condition of anonymity, agreed to spill the beans on the couple’s life post the end-credits of Band Baaja Baaraat.
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The Peerless Brilliance of Sheeba Chaddha
In both Maja Ma and Good Bad Girl, Sheeba Chaddha continues to defy our dated ideas of time and screen space by delivering incomparable per-second impact.
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Sacred Games Season 2 and the Problem With Its Replaceable Women
Although, none of the female characters in the second season of Sacred Games are killed off cheaply like Radhika Apte’s Anjali Mathur was last season, the new season can be accused of something worse: falling into the trap of mistaking the mere inclusion of female characters as doing justice to them.
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From Space Odyssey to Satellite TV
Today, modern space missions are no longer about human beings exploring the final frontier but about increasing the number of channels on our TV screens and updating Google Maps.
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I’m in a Complicated Relationship with “It Shows”
In the age of Netflix and zero torrenting, we’re all consumed by a desperate, obsessive urge to watch a TV show, movie and, podcast the moment they are out. This race to keep up with the “it” shows of the moment, is exhausting.
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Kumud Mishra has Mastered the Art of Empathy
Kumud Mishra plays empathetic characters with stunning elegance but in SonyLiv’s Dr Arora he also manages to add quiet angst to the portrayal of a heartbroken middle-aged man.
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Afsos Review: Gulshan Devaiah Kills It in this Crackling Tragicomedy About a Man Desperate to Die
It’s rare to make a comedy that is informed by its wickedness. Even rare to set it in a homegrown universe that pokes fun at the double standards of middle-class anxieties – death, religion, millennial indecisiveness, and existentialism – in a way which is immediately recognisable. Afsos manages to do both.
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Kahaani Chor Chor Ki: What If Ocean’s 8 Were an Indian TV Soap?
Meet Debjaani Sagar, the homegrown version of Debbie Ocean from Ocean’s 8. With her gang of desi girls, she’s attempting the heist of the decade in a caper filled with shapeshifting mosquitoes, revenge plots, and reincarnations.
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Hey Netflix, Ditch Narcos. The Karnataka Elections Deserve a Show
News reports, think pieces, and analysis aren’t doing the cliffhanger elections in Karnataka any justice. With all the absurd drama that has unfolded this week, our netas deserve their own multi-genre TV show – working title, Kar-Naatak, The Wild Wild State.