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Bulbbul is produced by Anushka Sharma’s production outfit (she runs it with her brother), and it shares a few similarities with another film from this company: Pari. Both titles refer to winged creatures: one’s a bird, the other an angel. And both times, these wings are clipped: either literally or …

Director Bala is a pioneer in transporting us to unusually different worlds. Be it Sethu or Nandha, he’s showcased a distinct voice and the unique ability to create a world that is whole. His films are never set in the reality that many of us know; he’s successful because his …

Mira Nair, award-winning director of Salaam Bombay and The Namesake among others, adapts one of the longest single-volume novels, over 1,300 pages with more than a 100 characters, as a web-series for BBC.  Set in post-independence India, it is a story of a mother’s attempt to find her daughter a …

Desperados, on Netflix, is quite similar to a bad dream, the kind that wakes you up with a jolt. You are glad that it is over but are aware that you went through something horrific. The only upside to a dream would be that you can go back to sleep …

Director: Aaron Schneider Writer: Tom HanksCast: Tom Hanks, Stephen Graham, Devin Druid Streaming On: Apple TV + If there was ever a time to miss the big screen, it’s now. I felt a little sad while admiring Greyhound – a World War II film of relentless pressure and exquisite rhythm …

With no signs of cinema halls opening any time soon, reliance on streaming is at an all-time high. A lot of us are scrounging for humorous, lighthearted and binge-worthy shows that are easy to watch, so here’s my list of the top 5: Schitt’s Creek on Netflix David Levy’s six-season …

At a time when the concepts of celebrity and fandom were objects of study by culture scholars, auteur Martin Scorsese had adapted these themes and crafted them into what remains today a brilliant, yet underrated cinematic work, and moreover, a worthy commentary of American culture – 1983’s The King of …

This series on Amazon Prime Video could be what we need right now, to incite a wave of serious introspection as to where we fall in the political arena. The first thing that struck me when watching the series was the restraint of the setting and the cast. Paatal Lok …

The  Indian cinemascope has traversed a long way from the big, fat joint family of Hum Saath Saath Hain, wherein the traditional values and cultural norms were synonymous with unquestionable reverence for parents and elders. The more realistic presentation of the Indian familial setup in Kapoor & Sons, Piku, Khosla …

Zoya Akhtar‘s Luck By Chance (2009) is a film about films. Actors play actors; writers play writers and a costume designer plays a costume designer. Then there is a plethora of actors playing themselves. It is meta maxed out. The last time we saw something similar was when Akhtar’s maternal …

After covering the three other South Indian industries, Amazon Prime Video enters the Kannada direct-to-OTT market with Law. Starring first timer Ragini Prajwal, the briskly-cut trailer offers little in terms of information expect that it will be a fast-paced legal thriller with an extended portion set within a courtroom. From first …

As someone who has struggled with professional choices every step of the way to adulthood, and as someone who prefers content over conversation at times, I have consumed quite a hearty amount of a specific genre called ‘coming-of-age’ when it comes to cinema. However, despite relying on these films throughout …

Netflix’s Warrior Nun is quite like a superhero origin story or, well, tries to be one. It is geared by and for the young blood, intermeshing teenage sensibilities with superhero characteristics. If I have to give a clearer description of what I mean by that, combine the brain and age …

Director: Gina Prince-BythewoodWriter: Greg RuckaCinematography: Tami Reiker, Barry AckroydEditor: Terilyn A. ShropshireCast: Charlize Theron, KiKi Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Marwan Kenzari, Luca Marinelli, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Harry MellingProducer: David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger, Charlize Theron, Beth Kono, A.J. Dix, Marc EvansStreaming Platform: Netflix After orchestrating a Kalinga-like carnage, when Andy (Charlize …

Director: Mayank SharmaWriters: Bhavani Iyer, Vikram Tuli, Mayank SharmaCast: Abhishek Bachchan, Nithya Menen, Amit SadhStreaming on: Amazon Prime Video To understand how fundamentally bad Breathe: Into the Shadows is, it’s important to understand how morbidly effective Breathe was. The first season starred R. Madhavan as a football coach who begins …

In many ways, fan casting Succession feels like blasphemy. To reimagine a show in which the casting, along with…pretty much everything else feels near perfect, to think of any aspect of it in a different way feels wrong. But, if you really think about it, at it’s core Succession is …

Director: Ra Vijayamurugan Cast: Yogi Babu, Mime Gopi Cocktail, directed by RA Vijayamurugan, begins with a story about a missing idol that was made by the Chola kings 450 years ago. But instead of expensive set design and art direction to place the story in that period, the director opts …

Every decade of Hindi cinema has its own totem that is symbolic of its time; either nation building, or the angry proletariat, or the NRI love-scape, or kitsch violence. Every year too has its own significant film moment, that speaks to the cultural landscape- the hairstyles of characters that local …

SS Rajamouli’s Baahubali: The Beginning released five years ago on this day and changed Indian cinema a little. For one thing, audiences used to a staple diet of Hindi cinema went to the theatres to watch a dubbed Telugu film with no recognisable face, not once, but twice, and made …

Today marks five years since the release of SS Rajamouli‘s Baahubali: The Beginning. Everyone talks about its grandeur, magnitude, scale, performances, visual effects and, of course, the cliffhanger. After these many years, there are still some iconic scenes that come to mind the minute you hear or think of the …

“I was only playing,” he says, with the grin of a child who’s been up to some mischief. It’s 11 AM on a Monday, and I’m on a Zoom call with director-screenwriter KV Vijayendra Prasad. He’s in formal office attire, a sight a lot of us have forgotten during this …

Director: Tarun DudejaCast: Prajakta Koli, Yashpal Sharma Streaming: YouTube I’m wary of films that are too blatant with their messaging. For instance, a story about gender inequality tends to forcibly highlight the patriarchy of its environment. We see dismissive fathers and submissive mothers. We see unsupportive teachers and mean coaches. …

On the fifth anniversary of Bahubali: The Beginning, one of Indian cinema’s biggest hits, we also got the first look of Prabhas’ new film (his 20th), and his second after the Bahubali franchise, with the film being titled ‘Radhe Shyam’. First impressions suggest an epic love story set in Europe, as …

Following the release of her new Amazon Prime Video series Rasbhari, Swara Bhasker spoke to me about her five favourite shows, and how they’ve impacted her career choices. From feel-good comfort watches to lavish period dramas, here’s her list: The Wonder Years I was really young when I watched it, …