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‘BR Ambedkar: Now and Then’ strips the Brahmin gaze off the Bahujan story. It’s a must watch

Prashant - 11 December, 2023

What’s more potent than Ambedkar today? Lakhs of Ambedkarites at Chaityabhumi in Mumbai

Mission Impossible goes on a hunt for thrill. Like Tom Cruise and his enemy, it’s everywhere

Lust Stories 2 on Netflix shows OTT’s obsession with anthologies and a problem they must fix

Stellar cast, tight plot—Jugg Jugg Jeeyo is the Bollywood comedy India has been waiting for

Tina Das - 24 June, 2022

Comedy is often not a great tool to discuss tense topics, but Anil Kapoor and Neetu Singh's Jugg Jugg Jeeyo passes the test.

Masoom is Boman Irani’s OTT debut, but it would be better as a family drama than crime thriller

Yashika Singla - 22 June, 2022

Masoom boasts of a stellar cast, but the fault ultimately lies with its weak, loophole-ridden plot.

She Season 2’s edgy vulgarity will keep you watching. But it doesn’t take the series forward

Tina Das - 18 June, 2022

She's dialogues are wonderfully crass but also unimaginative. From the police to gangsters to the prostitutes, stereotypes play out.

Netflix’s Spiderhead could have been the new Black Mirror. But plot, characters let it down

Nidhima Taneja - 18 June, 2022

Joseph Kosinski's sci-fi film is no Top Gun—in a hurry to say everything, it says nothing at all. But Miles Teller and Chris Hemsworth shine.

Sabbir Khan’s Nikamma has fresh cast, ‘new’ Shilpa Shetty but promises migraine for the day

Tina Das - 17 June, 2022

Shilpa Shetty sheds her '90s heroine avatar in Nikamma. But the film's Gen Z romance makes it fall flat.

Comic, surreal—‘Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon’ is this year’s Hindi cinematic marvel

Raghav Bikhchandani - 13 June, 2022

Helmed by theatre stalwart Anamika Haksar, ‘Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon’ is a slice-of-life film on Delhi’s Shahjahanabad.

Amazon’s Udan Patolas about 4 Punjabi women in Mumbai isn’t the silly sitcom it wants to be

Raghav Bikhchandani - 11 June, 2022

A new series for Amazon's mobile-exclusive MiniTV, Udan Patolas leans into fish-out-of-water silliness but fails to be funny enough to progress beyond mediocrity.

TRP or ethics? Sonali Bendre’s The Broken News gets Indian media right. With a dash of fantasy

Tina Das - 11 June, 2022

Sonali Bendre's maiden OTT venture on Zee5 sees her playing an ethical journalist who just can’t seem to get the TRPs.

Jurassic World Dominion brings ‘90s nostalgia but it’s the same old dinosaur plot

Tina Das - 10 June, 2022

Top Gun: Maverick too relied on nostalgia but blended new elements to create a laudable experience. The Jurassic Park franchise doesn't even try.

Janhit Mein Jaari is a great ‘could have been’ film about condoms. That is a sheer loss

Tina Das - 9 June, 2022

In Janhit Mein Jaari, Nushrratt Bharuccha plays a woman who has to sell condoms in a small town in MP.

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Reel Take

‘BR Ambedkar: Now and Then’ strips the Brahmin gaze off the Bahujan story. It’s a must watch

What’s more potent than Ambedkar today? Lakhs of Ambedkarites at Chaityabhumi in Mumbai

Mission Impossible goes on a hunt for thrill. Like Tom Cruise and his enemy, it’s everywhere

Lust Stories 2 on Netflix shows OTT’s obsession with anthologies and a problem they must fix

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