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Goodbye review | Neena Gupta plays the most iridescent part in this film about grieving
Vikas Bahl’s film about the tribulations of a family that has lost its endearing matriarch has Amitabh Bachchan and Rashmika Mandanna in lead roles.
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Ticket to Paradise review: When George Clooney and Julia Roberts' combined star power isn’t enough
A hokey throwback to the ’90s American rom-com that seems to exist only for Julia Roberts and George Clooney to come together as a pair.
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The Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives review: The t**ts are at it again
Reality shows like this don’t appeal to the heart or the brain—they exist only for petty, perverse fun.
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Cuttputlli review | What happens when a serial killer drama is uninspired vanilla
Akshay Kumar channels Arjan with a straight-jacketed do-gooder approach. Rakul Preet Singh is pretty; not much else can be said about her.
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Box office: Divine intervention
Around Rs 2,000 crore is riding on a slate of hugely-mounted films based on Hindu mythology planned for the next couple of years after ‘Brahmāstra’ . Will they be safe bets for an already shaky box office?
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Mohsin Hamid’s fluid worlds
Mohsin Hamid’s forthcoming book 'The Last White Man' is a stinging index of our times, shaped by the pandemic and identity upheavals.
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Bollywood’s moment of reckoning
The Hindi film industry has always been trolls' and the Establishment’s soft target. It’s time that stopped being an excuse for preserving the Bollywood bubble.
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Delhi Crime Season 2 review | Crime and punishment
Delhi Crime, one of Netflix’s biggest ever India shows, returns for a second season with a more plot-driven arc, visually evocative storytelling and a standout performance.
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Liger review | All roar, no bite
Vijay Deverakonda’s eponymous hero is the stuff of nightmares. It doesn’t help that the film has no mind or soul to couch him in.
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Duranga review: The slack remake of a Korean thriller
The Zee5 crime series, a remake of the emotionally-charged K-drama ‘Flower of Evil’, rests on easy twists and drumming up suspense.
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How Mahatma Gandhi lives on in Indian art
Even though he is further away from public view than ever before. A new show at Delhi’s Gallery Espace puts the spotlight back on how Indian art has kept Mahatma Gandhi alive.
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Do Baaraa review | Time travel roller-coaster
Anurag Kashyap’s new film is a gripping sci-fi mystery with Taapsee Pannu in the lead.
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Laal Singh Chaddha review | Why the film works as a remake of 'Forrest Gump'
Aamir Khan headlines the remake 28 years after the Hollywood original wowed America with its radical Mr Nice Everyman hero
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Darlings review: The electric duet of Alia Bhatt and Shefali Shah
Jasmeet K. Reen’s film about domestic abuse is a highly effective subversion of the scarred woman’s revenge saga.
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Masaba Gupta’s salad-bowl cosmopolitanism
The mother-daughter duo’s Netflix show premiered its second season this week—and it’s a breezy romcom.
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Ek Villain Returns review: Mohit Suri’s answer to jilted straight Indian men
John Abraham, Arjun Kapoor, Tara Sutaria and Disha Patani star in this misogynistic mayhem of a film.
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Shamshera review: Born to be wild
Explosive testosterone on big scale, some hammy acting, deafening melodrama and Ranbir Kapoor in a mythical avenger role.
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Persuasion review: All agony, no hope
Jane Austen adaptations and Regency-era material are wonderfully malleable in modern adaptations. But this anti-purist argument doesn’t hold in Netflix’s ‘Persuasion’.
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The singularity of Ranveer Singh in Bollywood
Ranveer Singh can be everything and anything a star could be—and then surprise fans and critics alike with his choices and statements.
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Shabaash Mithu review: Blue bleeds over
The Mithali Raj biopic is less about Mithali and more a punch at the privilege entrenched in men’s cricket.
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Jeff Koons’ NFT art will go to the moon
From Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol to Jeff Koons and Subodh Gupta—how the new tech-creative order nurtures pop-art ambitions.
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Ranveer vs Wild with Bear Grylls review: Meme-worthy Romeo in the wild
Ranveer Singh is the new Bollywood man with feels and heroism in equal measure in his new faux-interactive reality show on Netflix.
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'Rocketry: The Nambi Effect' review: Superhero, scientist, patriot
R. Madhavan’s effusive and gauche attempt at recreating the extraordinary journey of the rocket scientist Nambi Narayanan.
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When local is universal: SonyLIV to launch Tamil Originals this month
SonyLIV’s slate of Tamil Originals kicks off on July 22 with ‘Meme Boys’. With its merger with Zee around the corner, regional stories could be the gamechanger for homegrown OTTs.
