Wife-beaters Beware: Set in the Muslim populated area of Mumbai—the old buildings with a sense of community, where everybody minds everybody’s business, and speak a slang-y language that is peculiar…
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Coach For India: Two seasons of the Netflix series Kota Factory exposed the education racket in the Rajasthan town, which, from a modest doria sari weaving centre has grown to become the coaching…
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The Runaway Brides: If a series is set in small town India, it is de rigueur for the characters to be batty. The new comedy series on Voot Select, The Great…
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Darkness in 3D: For a film that aimed at a pan-Indian release, the title, Vikrant Rona, does not fit. In Hindi ‘rona’ is to weep, and no, the hero is not a tragic…
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Style Files: Masaba Masaba starred the mother-daughter team of Neena and Masaba Gupta, playing fictionalized versions of themselves, and giving the show a likeable reality show vibe. Now Season 2 (Netflix) is…
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Double Trouble: Like the lead character in the film RK/RKAY, writer-director-actor Rajat Kapoor makes small, interesting films that win critical acclaim and do the festival rounds, but, as a snippy assistant…
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Small Town Quack: This eight-part web series (on SonyLiv) is set in the late 1990s, maybe because there was more squeamishness and ignorance about sexual matters then as compared to…
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Laugh It Off: It’s risky to be a stand-up comic these days, which has taken some of the sting out of the comedy and Comicstaan Season 3 (created by OML) has to…
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Adventures In Serbia: The first Indian to have appeared on the Bear Grylls adventure show was PM Narendra Modi, who looked quite blase at all the excitement the host tried to…
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In A Pickle: The shows produced by The Viral Factory (TVF) have taken viewers into their fictional version of the real India, and made the joys and troubles of common folk…