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Satish Shah played a dead body in ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro’. And stole the show

Triya Gulati - November 2, 2025

A ghost, war veteran & a lost nation—Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Naukri was ahead of its time

Amitabh and Amjad’s real-life friendship played out in Yaarana. It’s usually different on-screen

Satyajit Ray’s 1960 Devi shows God-fearing rural Bengal—and devotion delusion

Only Murders in the Building 2 retains its quirky taste—crime and podcast both get better

Dishha Bagchi - June 30, 2022

Streaming on Disney+Hotstar, Only Murders continues its original style of storytelling. Steve Martin, Selena Gomez, and Martin Short are back.

A funny, layered entertainer, why Kissi Se Na Kehna deserves all the love but no hate

Unnati Sharma - June 29, 2022

Released in 1983, a still from Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Kissi Se Na Kehna has landed Alt-News co-founder Mohammed Zubair in trouble.

Pankaj Tripathi-Neeraj Kabi’s cracking chemistry nearly salvages Sherdil’s shoddy screenplay

Raghav Bikhchandani - June 25, 2022

Set around the Philibit Tiger Reserve, Srijit Mukherjee’s ‘Sherdil’ has a stellar cast but plays it too safe.

‘Forensic’ doesn’t know what to be an expert in — investigating murders or cramming twists

Nidhima Taneja - June 24, 2022

Zee5's Hindi adaptation of the 2020 Malayalam movie 'Forensic' is a flimsy replication that tries to play clever but is done in by shoddy writing.

You can’t help falling in love with Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’ – loud, proud, with sideburns

Tina Das - June 24, 2022

Austin Butler and Tom Hanks shine as Elvis Presley and his manager Tom Parker. It’s a tribute to his complicated legacy.

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

Tina Das - June 24, 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 - June 22, 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 - June 18, 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 - June 18, 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 - June 17, 2022

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

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Reel Take

Satish Shah played a dead body in ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro’. And stole the show

A ghost, war veteran & a lost nation—Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Naukri was ahead of its time

Amitabh and Amjad’s real-life friendship played out in Yaarana. It’s usually different on-screen

Satyajit Ray’s 1960 Devi shows God-fearing rural Bengal—and devotion delusion

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