More than a review, these are just gushing thoughts painstakingly condensed to a read-able length. The Emotions Being the utter romantic and a die hard Yash Chopra fan that I am, I decided to watch this series the day it dropped in, being the Valentines Day, a perfect watch for the day. For a GenX, […]
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Farzi (Prime Video Series) Creators -Raj and Dk Cast- Shahid Kapoor, Bhuvan Arora, Vijay Sethupathi, Kay Kay Menon, Rashi Khanna, Amol Palekar, Zakir Hussain , Regina Cassendra, Kubra Sait This crime thriller revolves around the high stakes and dark world of counterfeit currency with an anti hero who is desperate to make it big and […]
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Class ( Netflix Series) Based On – Elite (Spanish Teen Drama) Director -Ashim Ahluwalia Writers – Kersi Khambatta, Kashyap Kapoor and Rajesh Devraj Cast -Gurfateh Pirzada, Anjali Sivaraman, Ayesha Kanga, Chayan Chopra, Chintan Rach, Cyaawal Singh I wasn’t a super fan of the original ( Elite) but Class can be commended for focusing on the […]
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Shahmaran (Turkish Series/ Netflix/ Fantasy Drama ) Shahmaran is a mythical creature, popular in Turkish Folklores, a powerful ‘half snake half woman’, who sacrificed herself for love. It’s a Persian word where in Shah means King and Maran means snake. Cast – Serenay Sarikaya, Burak Deniz, Mustafa Ugurlu, Mahir Gunsiray, Berfu Halisdemir, Nilay Erdonmez, Nil […]
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Dahan : Rakan Ka Rahasya (DisneyHotstar/ Horror/ Series) Director- Vikrant Pawar, Jai Sharma Cast – Tisca Chopra, Saurabh Shukla, Rajesh Tailang, Pankaj Sharma, Rohan Joshi, Lehar Khan, Mukesh Tiwari Plot IAS Avani (Tisca) seeks a posting to a strife ridden town where the superstitious locals headed by an occultist ( Saurabh Shukla), and a mining […]
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Saas Bahu Achaar Pvt Ltd (Zee5 Series/2022/ Comedy/ Drama) Writers-Abhishek Shrivastav, Swarnadeep Biswas Director- Apoorv Singh Karki Cast-Amruta Subhash, Yamini Das, Anjana Sukhani, Anup Soni, Anandeshwar Dwivedi, Manu Bisht, Nikhil Chawla. Plot The story centres around a woman, recently divorced, who is trying to get a foothold financially and emotionally. She fumbles, falls but eventually […]
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Ankahi Kahaniya( 2021/ Anthology/ Netflix) Three stories by three acclaimed directors bound by a common theme of loneliness and love. Have seen a lot reviews about this anthology and quite mixed ones, which consequently toned down my expectations. But the stories had me completely roped in and I think it was a good decision to […]
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Suzhal: The Vortex ( Series / Prime Video/ 2022/Thriller /avl in various languages ) Writers-Pushkar Gayathri Directors -Anucharan Murgaiyan, Bramma G Cast -Kathir, Sriya Reddy, R Parthiban, Aishwarya Rajesh Plot A quaint small town ,that is preparing for the mesmerising Mayana Kollai festival, is reeling under a factory workers-owner dispute and strike. On the first […]
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Tryst with Destiny (2021/ Sonyliv / Anthology) A set of four stories about people from different strata struggling with prejudices, inequalities, aspirations, vices and their destinies. Director – Prashant Nair Writers – Avani Deshpande, Neeraj Pandey, Prashant Nair Analysis The anthology offers a great combination of subtlety, substance, message and engaging storytelling Besides the fact […]
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Ray (2021) Based on stories by Satyajit Ray, it’s an anthology of 4 short thrillers conveying stark human emotions like ego, selfishness, vanity and the likes. Forget Me not – By Srijit Mukherji (Ali Fazal, Shweta Basu Prasad, Anindita Bose) Ipsit (Ali) is a rich dynamic entrepreneur, who is at wits end when his famous […]
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