OTT Movie Review

Murders  Most Foul: The Nithari Killings of 2006 had pierced India’s doesn’t-happen-here complacency.  The sensational case of murder, sex, cannibalism, necrophilia in a nondescript area of Noida had dominated the …

That Femme Again: The 2021 film, Hasseen Dillruba, directed by Vinil Mathew, was based on the germ of an idea from Roald Dahl’s twisted thriller, Lamb To The Slaughter. It ended with the murder …

Boo That! In a country full of folklore, superstition and myths, a well made horror film is likely to work, as the recent hit Munjya showed. The now popular horror-comedy genre (Stree heralded …

Men Will Be Boys This is Punjab, but it’s also Luv Ranjan’s laddish universe, in which a bunch of overgrown boys, who ought to have adulted by their thirties, run …

Women’s World: Tahira Kashyap Khurrana’s debut feature, Sharmajee Ki Beti looks at a group of women who have nothing in common but their surname—Sharma. She intended to make a film about the …

Unfunny Comedy: This film has not been directed by Raaj Shaandilya, but he has co-written it with director Ishrat R Khan, and is one of the producers, so some of …

Lights Out: A band of masked robbers very easily trip up the power grid of the whole of Pune to grab a fortune in gold. That’s just so the film …

Crimes And  Clues: Nobody believes police investigations are fun; in reality they mostly involve the tedium of interrogating recalcitrant witnesses or going over clues again and again, till there is …

The Shining Star The mystique of Amar Singh Chamkila endures over three decades after his murder, because his rise was meteoric, and his death so sudden and brutal, that the …

Army Of One: There are sporadic media reports on the horrific abuse of girls in orphanages and shelter homes – the helpless minors exploited by the very people tasked with …