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Friday, March 29, 2024
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Topic: Netflix

‘Gorgeous drama but flat dialogue’ — Mira Nair’s ‘A Suitable Boy’ opens to mixed reactions

The first episode of BBC’s first period drama starring only people of colour aired Sunday. An adaptation of Vikram Seth's novel, the show will come to India later in this year on Netflix.

Will give people a peek into the system — IAS officer who will star in Netflix’s Delhi Crime

Abhishek Singh, who is already an online sensation after featuring in musical video Dil Tod Ke, will now play an IAS officer in season 2 of popular Netflix series Delhi Crime.

‘Indian Matchmaking’ might be controversial but it’s helping Netflix in battle for India

Some describe the show as a 'cringe-fest' but the buzz around it illustrates that Netflix could start leveraging content produced for India to gain a wider audience overseas as well.

Netflix and Amazon are scoring big wins in the battle for Bollywood

Netflix says it has added six new Indian films that would otherwise have gone to cinemas, while Hotstar has at least seven such movies on tap.

Netflix celebrates ‘aunty gaze’, caste and colourism in Indian matchmaking

The show, which follows matchmaker Sima Taparia find suitable partners for Indians & Indian Americans, perpetuates the regressive idea that parents know best.

There’s still nothing even close to Netflix, Covid crisis has made that very clear

Stay-at-home orders may have given Netflix’s competitors a chance to amass a quick following, but subscribers are finding there isn’t much in those platforms except their top programs.

How Netflix has transformed from being an upstart to a Hollywood studio

The streaming giants — Ted Sarandos & Reed Hastings have helped Netflix produce hundreds of programs that span reality shows, sitcom, blockbusters — all in multiple languages.

These are Netflix’s 10 most popular original movies

The list provides the clearest picture yet of what types of movies are most popular on Netflix, which has historically been secretive about viewership.

Bulbbul review: Anushka Sharma’s new Netflix production upturns the idea of a fairy-tale

Directed by Anvita Dutt, the movie is a feminist take on childhood stories that combines horror, period drama & social commentary.

Do-it-yourself quarantine movies are here. And Netflix’s Home Stories is leading the way

Quarantine-produced content is the answer to Bollywood’s anxiety over the future of films. Netflix and YouTube are already cashing in.

On Camera

Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.