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Roju’s Kaiyum Kalavum has a flawless plot where logic has no place

The SonyLiv series tells the story of an unnamed boy who is cursed with a literal itch to suppress desire, and a clumsy member of a pickpocket gang.

Shallow, superfluous, frustrating—Sonakshi Sinha and Huma Qureshi’s Double XL is a dud

The film does not know what to do with itself. The ‘message’ is half-baked and serious issues like binge eating are not addressed properly.

Even the biggest names in Hollywood couldn’t rescue Netflix’s flat Cabinet of Curiosities

Despite being directed by Natali, Prior, Sterling, and starring actors like Rupert Grint of Harry Potter fame, the show just leaves a bitter aftertaste.

The Good Nurse has wobbly screenplay but Eddie Redmayne, Jessica Chastain make up for it

Netflix's The Good Nurse directed by Tobias Lindholm is about a menacing serial killer who is seemingly harmless.

Thank God is a cross between 90s Bollywood and early-morning pravachans

Indra Kumar makes a come back in Bollywood after six years with Thank God. A remake of Norwegian film Sorte Kugler.

Akshay Kumar tries to be Dr Walton of Indiana Jones in Ram Setu. But he isn’t convincing

In Abhishek Sharma's Ram Setu, Akshay Kumar plays a 40-something atheist who is out to prove that Ram Setu predates Ramayana.

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.

On Camera

Why Tejashwi Yadav failed—Bihar changed, RJD didn’t

RJD, once a prominent representative of Mandal politics, now finds itself in a political era where welfare, good governance, and new aspirations are overshadowing old caste equations.

As govt starts rolling back Quality Control Orders, a look at adverse impact they had, mainly on MSMEs

Between 2016 and 2025, around 700 QCOs were issued by the government. Now, it has withdrawn 69 of them.

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.