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Reel Take

Tripling Season 3 gives millennials a reality check on lives of parents who ‘get all the blame’

The Viral Fever’s show for Zee5 returns in a post-Covid world with its sibling-trio who have matured enough to cope with the loss of the ‘traditional’ concept of family.

Mohanlal-starrer ‘Monster’ is a tasteless cocktail of cliches, stereotypes, and lazy writing

Monster should have been called off at the reading table.

Lionsgate Play’s Israeli series ‘Jerusalem’ is yet another propaganda-laced cop show

Jerusalem engages in and perpetuates many of the same tired tropes and cartoonish conspiratorial scheming that hurt the litany of Israeli drama series of this kind.

Amazon’s Four More Shots Please! wants to be desi Sex in the City but feels stretched

The new season is binge-worthy, especially on the weekend, with probably your girl gang and some bubbly.

With Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam, DC Universe has learnt from Batman vs Superman mistakes

The crisp editing and fantastic graphics ensure that Black Adam is a fitting debut for The Rock in the DCEU.

Dark, disturbing, daring—Amazon Prime’s ‘Ammu’ is not a preachy take on domestic violence

Aishwarya Lekshmi’s Ammu joins Taapsee Pannu’s Thappad and Alia Bhatt’s Darlings to show how women ultimately save themselves from bad marriages.

Apple TV+’s Shantaram offers gripping look at 1980s Bombay but needs to break the shackles more

After years of delays, Gregory David Roberts’ seminal 2003 novel Shantaram has finally been adapted for the small screen, and is off to a gripping, but slightly flawed, first three episodes.

If there is one movie you cannot miss this year, it’s Kannada film Kantara

The film directed by Rishab Shetty is a satiating blend of folklore and masala.

Compelling, simple, magical—Gujarati film Chhello Show deserves to be India’s Oscar entry

Pan Nalin’s film is not perfect, but its heartwarming story about the love for celluloid will make you root for it.

Netflix’s Mismatched 2 is finally India’s answer to Gen Z content, from mental health to love

The series based in Jaipur explores the idea of moving on, of finding new love and partners, while dealing with the past.

On Camera

What is the beauty tyranny at play when a Panipat mother murders kids

India is horrified by Poonam’s actions. But it should also do what it rarely does — examine the mirror it keeps holding up to its women.

To make space for solar energy, India may tell coal plants to run at lower loads

The additional costs would trickle down to consumers, in what could be a calculated trade off to help the country make the most of its solar capacity.

From nuclear cooperation to defence, trade to oil, what is expected from Putin’s two-day India visit

New Delhi is interested in firming up bilateral agreements for increased trade, mobility, upgrade of Su-30 MKI fighters and the increased range of BrahMos supersonic missiles.

Gaali cricket: Bavuma stands tall, India’s Test ego cut to size

The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.