Jaadugar, the new Netflix film with OTT superstar Jitendra Kumar as the leading character, is a story that is crowded and cliched. When the gallery starts to sing in the movie’s climax, you will hope that all of it is a dream sequence. But unfortunately, it isn’t, and that’s one of the major issues with… Continue reading Jaadugar
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Panchayat: Season 2
When you are creating something without a proper central conflict, there isn’t much there to drive the story forward, and often it happens that the script just lingers on to a particular idea and abandons it midway. Panchayat from TVF is a series that explores such a difficult terrain of screenplay writing. The show has… Continue reading Panchayat: Season 2
Kota Factory: Season 2
Kota Factory, the TVF original which now has a second season on Netflix, is a very raw yet smoothened depiction of the world of competitive exams. For a lot of people, this will be a series of Dejavu moments. For some, it will be insightful, and for some, this series is almost like a warning.… Continue reading Kota Factory: Season 2
Chaman Bahaar
Chaman Bahaar is a very confusing mixture of genres where you don’t really know whether to root for the character or not. For a large chunk of its run time, I was looking at it as a satire and then the movie started to act like a romantic comedy and this shifting from genre to… Continue reading Chaman Bahaar