Bhumi Pednekar in 'Daldal'
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‘Daldal’ Series Review: Bhumi Pednekar In A Corny Crime Thriller That Loses Its Way 

The 7-episode series suffers from the women-written-by-men syndrome

BY Rahul Desai
Nakuul Mehta in 'Space Gen: Chandrayaan'
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‘Space Gen: Chandrayaan’ Series Review: Failure to Launch

The TVF series dramatising ISRO’s landmark lunar mission is steeped in a lack of curiosity, craft and wonder

BY Rahul Desai
Sobhita Dhulipala in 'Cheekatilo'
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‘Cheekatilo’ Movie Review: Sobhita Dhulipala Gently Anchors This Simmering Murder Mystery

The familiar serial killer drama is given the slow-burning true-crime podcast treatment in ‘Cheekatilo’

BY Sruthi Ganapathy Raman
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‘Freedom At Midnight’ Season 2 Series Review: The Historical Drama We Deserve — and Need

The second season of Nikkhil Advani’s ambitious dive into Partition-era politics is bigger, smarter, fuller and fuelled by a terrific cast.

BY Rahul Desai
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‘LBW: Love Beyond Wicket’ Series Review: The Unlikely Comforts of TV-Serial Storytelling

The first four episodes of this sports drama revolve around a fading cricket academy and its overfamiliar faces.

BY Rahul Desai
'Scenes from a Situationship' on YouTube
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‘Scenes from a Situationship’ Movie Review: A Minor-Key Blast From The Past

Vaibhav Munjal’s indie about a crisis-fuelled couple is a throwback to the early years of YouTube film-making.

BY Rahul Desai
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'Pharma' Series Review: Earnest Nivin Pauly In A Medico-Thriller That Requires Patience

As clunky as the making might seem, 'Pharma' works best as a fairly engaging second-screen experience.

BY Vishal Menon
Raat2
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‘Raat Akeli Hai: The Bansal Murders’ Movie Review: A Cleverly Calibrated Crime Thriller

Honey Trehan’s sequel to 'Raat Akeli Hai' (2020), starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, makes a Knives Out-sized dent in the Hindi genre landscape

BY Rahul Desai
Madhuri Dixit in 'Mrs Deshpande'
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‘Mrs. Deshpande’ Series Review: A Sanitised and Domesticated Serial Killer Drama

Madhuri Dixit stars in a stagey crime thriller that unfolds in a hurry.

BY Rahul Desai
A still from 'The Great Shamsuddin Family'
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'The Great Shamsuddin Family' Movie Review: Home Truths and a Fun Ensemble

Two generations of a Muslim family hold the peace—barely—in Anusha Rizvi's sweetly drawn directorial return.

BY Shilajit Mitra
A still from 'Single Papa'
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‘Single Papa’ Series Review: Kunal Kemmu's Comedy is a Flimsy Revision of the Man-Child Template

Despite a fun cast, the six-episode Netflix comedy is happy to be a rehashed portrait of single parenthood.

BY Rahul Desai
A still from 'Saali Mohabbat'
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‘Saali Mohabbat’ Movie Review: Radhika Apte Stars in the Revenge of a Docile Homemaker

Starring Radhika Apte, Tisca Chopra’s feature-length directorial debut is too familiar to be twisted.

BY Rahul Desai
A still from 'Real Kashmir Football Club’
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‘Real Kashmir Football Club’ Series Review: The Sport of Good Storytelling

The eight-episode series, inspired by true events, succeeds at simplifying a modern Kashmir tale through sports, humanity and balanced writing.

BY Rahul Desai
A still from 'Stephen'
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'Stephen' Movie Review: Explosive Ideas In This Uneven Serial Killer Origin Story

This experiment never devolves into a mere indulgence and director Mithun maintains control over his complex material, even when it looks like it’s slipping away

BY Vishal Menon
A still from 'Nishaanchi 2'
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'Nishaanchi 2' Movie Review: O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Anurag Kashyap is at his most bewilderingly vague in the concluding chapter to the 'Nishaanchi' saga

BY Shilajit Mitra
A still from 'Perfect Family'
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‘Perfect Family’ Series Review: A Therapeutic, Well-Acted Portrait of Dysfunctional Familyhood

The 8-episode drama, streaming on YouTube, is imperfect but compelling enough to subvert a preachy genre

BY Rahul Desai
Manoj Bajpayee in 'The Family Man 3'
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‘The Family Man 3’ Series Review: A Dip In Form, But Good Enough 

Season 3 of the homegrown spy thriller has its moments, but there are signs of narrative gentrification  

BY Rahul Desai
'Delhi Crime' on Netflix
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‘Delhi Crime Season 3’ Series Review: Third Time’s Not A Charm

Netflix’s banner crime thriller comes undone in a season that lacks rhythm and identity

BY Rahul Desai
A still from 'Baramulla'
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‘Baramulla’ Movie Review: Horror Lies In The Eyes of the Beholder

Aditya Suhas Jambhale’s film infuses partisan politics with supernatural horror — and the result is complicated.

BY Rahul Desai