Manvat Murders review: Ashutosh Gowariker show is a trudge
The ghastly murders that rocked the Marathawada region in Maharashtra in the early 70s have been the...
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Ctrl movie review: Ananya Panday, Vikramaditya Motwane film is two-dimensional
With Ctrl, a cautionary tale about the world’s obsession and our near-total dependence on online app...
The Signature movie review: Banal Anupama Kher, Mahima Chaudhary film leaves you with zero feelings
When will Hindi cinema turn around and take a good, long look at itself, and flinch? At this point, ...
Love, Sitara movie review: Sobhita Dhulipala film aims for some fresh strokes
Past misdemeanours tumbling out during a family reunion is the familiar theme around which ‘Love, Si...
Binny And Family movie review: Pankaj Kapur, Anjini Dhawan film never breaks out of its TV sitcom beats
What happens when a steeped-in-traditional-Indian values ‘dadaji’ from a small town in Bihar clashes...
Yudhra movie review: Siddhant Chaturvedi actioner starts well, but succumbs to predictability
The basic cops-and-robbers story will always be a mainstream mainstay, and done well, nothing can be...
Sector 36 movie review: Vikrant Massey, Deepak Dobriyal shine in Netflix film
The 2005-2006 serial killings in Nithari, an unlovely colony in Noida, were so chilling that your bl...
The Buckingham Murders movie review: No-nonsense Kareena Kapoor Khan revels in her Kate Winslet era, but Hansal Mehta’s film succumbs to obviousness
A young boy is found dead in a woody copse which surrounds the small British town of Buckinghamshire...
Khalbali Records review: Ram Kapoor works his silver hair and silver tongue before showing his claws in energetic show
Music magnate Manvendra (Ram Kapoor) runs his company, ‘Galaxy Records’, with an iron fist without b...
Visfot movie review: Fardeen Khan, Riteish Deshmukh deliver been-there, seen-it film
Two sets of parallel lives — one from the slums, the other which inhabits plush South Mumbai high-ri...
Call Me Bae review: Ananya Panday’s show is frothy, frivolous and fun
Bella Bae Chowdhary is rich. Like not your average garden variety wealthy, but the kind that forgot ...
Aruna Vasudev (1936-2024): Asian cinema’s most vociferous champion
The first time I met Aruna Vasudev was in Nantes, a boutique film festival in the South of France, (...
IC 814 The Kandahar Hijack review: Effective and sharp, Vijay Varma-Anubhav Sinha series bravely unpacks the truth
The hijacking of Indian Airlines 814 in December 1999, the convoluted way the week-long hostage situ...
Only Murders In The Building Season 4 review: Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez show offers only intermittent pleasures
It’s no secret that I mark time restlessly between the gaps taken by the cast and crew of ‘Only Murd...
Kottukkaali movie review: PS Vinothraj, Anna Ben serve a triumph of independent story-telling
PS Vinothraj’s 2021 ‘Koozhangal’ (Pebbles), a stark, impactful look at how men steamroll over women ...
Angry Young Men review: Salim-Javed documentary coasts on full-blown nostalgia and interesting trivia
‘Kitnay aadmi thay? Sirf do’. The unsmiling hero whose arsenal included over and above everything el...
Vedaa movie review: Sharvari breaks the mould as John Abraham gets to slice and dice
John Abraham Vedaa Review: The challenge facing a film which wants to front a female lead while taki...
Khel Khel Mein movie review: Akshay Kumar exhibits flair in no-holds-barred comedy
Akshay Kumar Khel Khel Mein Review: Married couples, infidelity, and attendant dark secrets come up ...
Stree 2 movie review: Shraddha Kapoor, Rajkummar Rao film dumbs down a sharp premise
The return of Stree, one of the most awaited films of the year, could also be called The Advent Of t...
Shekhar Home review: Kay Kay Menon, Ranvir Shorey-starrer Sherlock reimaging is plodding, feeble
Shekhar Home borrows freely from the canons of Arthur Conan Doyle’s immortal sleuth Sherlock Holmes ...
Life Hill Gayi review: Kusha Kapila, Divyenndu show is a test of patience
This six-part web series was nothing but an exercise of my patience. I tried hard to find a chuckle ...
Gyaarah Gyaarah review: Stretched and convoluted, Kritika Kamra-Raghav Juyal series is best left in the past
Based on the 2016 Korean web series ‘Signal’, ‘Gyaarah Gyaarah’ gives us an Uttarakhand-based police...
Modern Masters review: A laudatory documentary on SS Rajamouli that precludes the pinpricks
Even those who do not track film news insistently know that RRR turned SS Rajamouli into a global se...
Ulajh movie review: Janhvi Kapoor film a damp squib, wastes fine ensemble cast on amateurish plot-line
I went in looking forward to Ulajh: what could be better than a film headlined by a hard-working New...
Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha movie review: Mothballed Ajay Devgn, Tabu film is unworthy of its leads
The joy of watching seasoned warhorses Ajay Devgn and Tabu in a star-crossed romance is undercut by ...
Bloody Ishq movie review: Vikram Bhatt’s worst film
If you thought that Vikram Bhatt’s moving away from haunted mansions in India to haunted castles in ...
Barzakh review: More precious than profound, Fawad Khan-Sanam Saeed series stays with you
In some ways, Barzakh feels very much like an extension of director Asim Abbasi’s 2018 Cake, a Karac...
Bad Newz movie review: Triptii Dimri holds her own against a delightful Vicky Kaushal
The good news: the first half, silly and sparkly, is altogether fun. The bad newz: the second half, ...
Tribhuvan Mishra CA Topper review: Manav Kaul gets 50 shades play in tiring and contrived series
It looks as if Jamuna Paar is still the hot new destination for web series creators and writers. Wai...
36 Days review: Impatience rules in this Purab Kohli-Neha Sharma show
An adaptation of the UK show ‘35 Days’, this eight part series revolves around a mysterious young wo...