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Friday, November 14, 2025
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Topic: comedy

‘The Office’ Hindi version: Can Hotstar pull off a successful adaptation of the mega show?

Hotstar is now streaming an Indian adaptation of the mega-popular sitcom, 'The Office'.

Fewer Pakistanis are going to cinema halls because Indian films keep getting banned

Distributors in Pakistan say the absence of Indian films always affects business since very few in the country watch Hollywood films.

Total Dhamaal review: An exercise in mediocrity that would make mediocre look better

The third instalment in the Dhamaal series has all the animals and actors in the zoo but not one funny bone.

‘Padosan’ can’t be made in today’s Republic of Easy Offended India

Cult comedy Padosan features Hindi cinema’s most popular duet and never runs out of laughs.

Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette reclaims space for women in comedy

Hannah Gadsby suggests that if her routine sounds like a diatribe against cis white men, it is so.

Indian comedians need lessons from Michelle Wolf: They’ve forgotten how to punch up

Laughing at ourselves is an art Indians, across the political spectrum, have failed to master.

इन नाजुक भावनाओं, जो हर बात पर आहत हो जाती हैं, का क्या करें?

हम भावनाएं आहत होनेवाली ऐसी पीढ़ी के साथ जी रहे हैं जिनको सवाल पूछना नहीं सिखाया गया है. एचओएच यानी ह्युमन्स ऑफ हिंदुत्व उनका ताज़ातरीन शिकार है.

Even during Holocaust comedy had thrived. But today’s India could not handle Humans of Hindutva

We are witnessing a generation of offence-takers who have been taught not to question authority, to mindlessly conform. HoH is their latest victim.

On Camera

10-point guide to Bihar election results: Lalu, Nitish & BJP’s hawk eye

Alliance partners have not lost any vote share. The central message of this election, therefore, is that the rival can’t take away your committed voters. You have to stitch alliances to bring in the “others”.

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.