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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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'Maharani' Season 4 Review: Huma Qureshi Confidently Steers The Strongest Season Yet

In its fourth season, 'Maharani' wants to dwell in the realm of rhetoric and not action.

BY Prathyush Parasuraman
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'Two Much with Kajol and Twinkle' Interrogates Chunky Panday and Govinda On Their Feminism

The patron saints of the silly join Twinkle Khanna and Kajol on their new talk show.

BY Prathyush Parasuraman
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‘Bhagwat Chapter One: Raakshas’ Movie Review: Arshad Warsi Anchors An Overfamiliar but Potent Crime Thriller

Akshay Shere’s police procedural stays busy and sociopolitically alive to the India we live in today.

BY Rahul Desai
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‘Search: The Naina Murder Case’ Series Review: A Crime Drama That Fails Konkona Sen Sharma

The six-episode police procedural suffers from all the symptoms of the Indian Remake Syndrome

BY Rahul Desai
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'The Game: You Never Play Alone' Series Review: Misogyny and Mayhem in Chennai

Shraddha Srinath and Santosh Prathap anchor a pulpy thriller about gamers and scammers

BY Shilajit Mitra
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‘I, Poppy’ Documentary Review: Vivek Choudhary’s Sharply Observed Film Is One of the Finest This Year

Vivek Choudhary’s powerful 75-minute documentary took the Best International Feature at 2025 Hot Docs and won the Busan Cinephile Award.

BY Rahul Desai
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‘13th’ Series Review: Another Brick in the ‘Kota Factory’ Wall

The TVF-coded drama about a former student and his mentor launching an ed-tech startup has the personality of an algorithm

BY Rahul Desai