Beware Of Arrows: It’s Robin Hood country—Sherwood forest in Nottinghamshire—the facile use of the name irks a local cop investigating a killer, who uses the folk hero’s weapon of crossbow-and-arrow. The…

Youth Pangs: The ten-part docuseries, Growing Up, created and executive produced by actress Brie Larson, has an interesting concept. The format is like a group therapy session in which a bunch of…

The audience numbers must have been respectable enough for the powers that be at Netflix to commission a second season of The Fabulous Lives of  Bollywood Wives, which, along with Indian Matchmaking,…

Forever Svelte: Jane Seymour was once a Bond girl named Solitaire, in the 1973 film, Live and Let Die, and was also written about much for her heterochromia, or simply put, different…

Decoding Real Estate: To the layperson, the term real estate brings to mind anything from house hunting, brokers and housing loans, to the rapacious builder lobby and massive corruption. Obviously,…

Dropping by at a police station with a friend who wanted to report the theft of her bag, one ran into a woman who was weeping about her husband beating…

Cracking The Whip: The constant real life political dramas in Bihar could fuel a number of web series; with Maharani, Subhash Kapoor just knew which vein of the mine to tap.…

Heart Of Darkness: The first season of Delhi Crime (2019) hit the right buttons, coming out when the horror of the 2012 Nirbhaya rape case had not yet slid out of the…

Extreme Evil : When family members of criminals claim they were unaware of the reality of their loved ones, people are usually skeptical; that’s why the premise of Duranga, the new Zee5…

Time To Time: Time travel has fascinated authors as far back as the late 19th century, with great writers like Mark Twain (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court-1889) and HG…