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The second outing of a well-made franchise is a tough nut to crack. ‘Khakee: The Bengal Chapter’, a standalone sequel to Neeraj Pandey’s acclaimed series ‘Khakee: The Bihar Chapter’, faces the same acid test of great expectations. The anticipation is...

On the wrong side of 20s, as Pia attends her younger sister’s wedding, the pressure to get married is immense. In comes a Panditji, who predicts that one of her next five dates is going to be her forever happily...

For the longest time, Dharma Productions has been known for reminding us how rich lives matter. Time and again, it has taken viewers not only on a voyeuristic ride into the extravagant lifestyles of the uber rich, but also offered...

‘Zero Day’, a six-episode series, plunges viewers into a high-stakes political conspiracy that leans heavily on its star-studded cast led by the legendary Robert De Niro, who makes his OTT debut. The thriller explores the chaos following a catastrophic global...

Jallianwala Bagh is an emotion — an emotion so strong that even after more than a century, it keeps finding its way to the silver screen. We last saw this emotion come alive in Shoojit Sircar’s ‘Sardar Udham’, where one...

Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect Laszlo Toth (Adrien Brody) arrives in America to rebuild his life. He and his wife Erzsebet (Felicity Jones) were forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. Only after he manages to establish himself...

In times when dissent has a negative connotation and JNU is projected as the template for institutionalised felony, ‘Ziddi Girls’, with themes like freedom of expression and the power of collective resistance at its core, comes across as bold and...

Ever since ‘Aashram’ dropped in 2020, both the director, Prakash Jha, and Bobby Deol, who plays the devious Baba Nirala, captured our imagination. Indeed, the perils of a successful show are that it often gets extended into many seasons, elongated...

Nothing is more heartwarming than aspirational stories of underdogs. Only, Reema Kagti’s cinematic recreation of small-town filmmaker Nasir Shaikh’s life is more than just a tale of a man dreaming the unthinkable, and realising it. As she takes us to...

It starts with someone calling 911 to report a case of domestic violence. The caller says he saw a man in a van slapping a woman. The place is Moab, Utah, and the date is August 12, 2021. What follows...

A dark thriller about uncontrollable desire, ‘Babygirl’ follows a sexually repressed CEO who finds release through a torrid affair with an intern. Director Halina Reijn’s second English-language feature, after 2022’s ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’, follows the erotic-thriller format but it is...

A grieving Ankur Chadha (Arjun Kapoor) is haunted by the memories of his rocky marriage to Prabhleen Dhillon (Bhumi Pednekar) and the bitter divorce. When his friend Bunty’s bachelor party is not able to lift his mood, he heads to...

The fine line between journalism and sensationalism is fast becoming wafer-thin. Even those not privy to the world of journalism are aware of the falsehoods the media propagates in search of truth. So, what can the showrunner of ‘Crime Beat’,...

The 23-minute short American-Hindi film ‘Anuja’is a tale of resilience, sisterhood and sacrifice. A gifted nine-year-old Anuja (Sajda Pathan), who works in a garment factory with her elder sister Palak (Ananya Shanbhag), gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study in a...

Sam (Anthony Mackie), the new Captain America, meets with newly elected US President Thaddeus Ross (Harrison Ford), and finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must unravel the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true...

A sweet but an incredibly boring man is left at the altar by his fancy-free fiancee. This lovelorn man had taken a loan for the honeymoon to Mauritius. Since that’s non-refundable, the mother wants to tag along the grieving son...

For the uninitiated, the glory of the Maratha kingdom ends with the great warrior Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. That his son, Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, was an equally valiant, fearless and fierce ruler is a fact we are not fully privy to....

This papal drama is a provocative and mildly funny take on the process involved in the appointment of a Pope. A Pope is appointed for life as head of the Catholic Church and Vatican City. His words are held as...

Pandemic as a backdrop, ‘Bada Naam Karenge’ brings back the Rajshri magic, this time on OTT. With Sooraj Barjatya at the helm of affairs, it’s a sweet love story that charts the coming together of two families. The nine-episode series...

A familiar kitchen katha! Women chop, cook, serve and wait on the table to get their report cards. Men shout instructions — chutney should be hand-ground and not mixie-made, roti should be served straight from the tawa, biryani cooked in...

‘The child is father of the man…’ Whatever William Wordsworth may have meant by that poetic expression, sons and fathers are as inextricably linked as a mother’s umbilical connection binds her to her children. Yet, fathers and sons are always...