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Mirzapur is Still Entertaining in its Second Season, Despite its Slower Pacing
Mirzapur returns with a second season almost two years after it first aired. In case you have forgotten what happened in the first season since then, the show opens with a detailed recap before diving straight into what looks like…
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Serious Men is an Entertaining Satire of a Ambitious Con-Man Whose House of Cards Starts to Come Apart
Adapted from a novel of the same name written by Manu Joseph, Serious Men is a satire that touches on casteism, endemic problems in the education sector and how ordinary people thrust the weight of the world onto their children…
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Betaal Repurposes the 1857 Indian Mutiny as A Zombie Story
Red Chillies Entertainment's first offering for Netflix, Bard of Blood, was a plodding, mediocre affair that failed to impress. Its second show, Betaal, takes on a different genre, mixing in political commentary with a puppy zombie threat. Created by Patrick…
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Paatal Lok: A Modern Noir Narrative Centered Around India’s Purgatory
Amazon Prime's Paatal Lok has often been compared to Sacred Games, and deservedly so. It's as much a crime thriller as a nuanced and somber study of India's downtrodden hinterlands, illuminating the injustices and hypocrisies in both Delhi and Uttar…
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Thappad Explores the Silent Injustices against Women in South-East Asian Society, Helmed by a Compelling Taapsee Pannu Performance
Thappad revealed its central conceit in it’s trailer: a woman seeks retribution after being slapped by her husband in a party. What could have been a thin, stretched narrative was, thankfully, spun into a thoughtful, nuanced take on domestic bliss…
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Never Have I Ever Tells the Age-Old Coming of Age Story, this Time from the Perspective of an Indian American Teen
It’s hard to do a teen-centric coming of age story right, especially when there have been so many attempts in the last couple of years. Never Have I Ever tries to do it by taking a fresh perspective: that of…
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India’s Citizenship Amendment Bill: States and universities in protest
On 11th December, India’s Rajya Sabha passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019. The Act is directed towards providing Indian citizenship to minorities such as Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh. Anyone belonging to these minorities…
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Little Things Explores Long Distance Relationships (and Changing Priorities) in Season 3
Little Things has gone through a lot of changes since it started out on YouTube. It went from a light-natured, playful look into the lives of a millennial live-in couple to an exploration of how two people living together grow…
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Bard of Blood is a Narrative Mess that Fails to be a Realistic Representation of Spycraft
Even if it wasn’t as flawed as it is, Bard of Blood would still be disappointing. It never rises above the level of a typical Indian spy thriller, unintentionally bringing to mind the Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif-helmed flicks of…
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The Truth About Kashmir (and the Dangers it Faces)
14th February 2019- Adil Ahmad Dar, a suicide bomber, caused a massive blast in Pulwama killing more than 40 Indian soldiers. The attack wasn’t a shocker, per se, because Kashmiris have been facing it for decades, many local groups of…
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