Mangrove (Amazon Prime) Starring Letitia Wright as Altheia Jones-LeCointe,Malachi Kirby as Darcus Howe,Shaun Parkes as Frank Crichlow, Sam Spruell as Police Constable Frank Pulley Directed by Steve McQueen Rating: *** ½ Released as part of the ...
It Finally Went To Applause Entertainment & Hansal Mehta. 1990s superstar-scamster Harshad Mehta is now once again a household name, thanks to HansalMehta’s series. And to think Varun Dhawan was all set to play Harshad Mehta ...
In Mira Nair’s widely acclaimed series A Suitable Boy , the Hindu heroine Lata Mehra (Tanya Maniktala) loves the Muslim hero Danesh(Kanir Durrani). Their shared kiss in a temple has caused a...
A Simple Murder(6 episodes, SonyLIV) Starring Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Sushant Singh, Amit Sial and Priya Anand Directed by Sachin Pathak Rating: ** ½ With no better option left, the couple in this fair-to-fine series Manish and Richa typify the can’t-do-without-can’t-do-with type of relationship...
Mismatched(Netflix) Starring Prajakta Kohli, Rohit Saraf, Rannvijay Singh, Vidya Malvade Rating: ** What if Simran in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai were a lesbian? And what if she hung around Rahul as his best friend without ever lusting for him? Mismatched seems to take...
Anwar Ka Ajab Kissa(ErosNow) Starring Nawazzudin Siddiqui, Pankaj Tripathy, Niharika Singh Written & Directed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta Rating: * ½ Pankaj Tripathy makes an appearance after 50 minutes of a tortuous this plodding surreal yatra, and that too for 5...
Sanjay Dutt’s long-awaited Torbaaz directed by one of Bollywood’s underrated names GirishMalik , is going to be on Netflix on 11 December. Dutt’s fans, of whom there’s no dearth, can expect...
Manta Ray(Thailand,France) Starring Aphisit Hama, Wanlop Rungkamjad and Rasmee Wayrana Directed by Phuttiphong Aroonpheng. Rating: **** The Rohingya community of displaced refugees has earned the unflattering reputation of being the most persecuted people in the...
Bad Hair(Hulu) Starring Elle Lorraine, Jay Pharoah, Lena Waithe, Kelly Rowland, Laverne Cox, Chanté Adams, James Van DerBeek, Usher Raymond IV, Blair Underwood, and Vanessa Williams. Directed by Justin Simien Rating: *...
The Crown Season 4(Netflix. 10 Episodes) Starring Olivia Colman ,Tobias Menzies, Helena BonhamCarter, Ben Daniels, Marion Bailey, Erin Doherty, Josh O’Connor, Emerald Fennell, Charles Dance, Gillian Anderson and Emma Corrin. Rating: ****...
Girl(French, Belgian. Available on Netflix) Starring Victor Polster as Lara Verhaeghen,Arieh Worthalter as Mathias Verhaeghen Directed by Lukas Dhont **** ½ Watching first-time actor Victor Polster nailing the role of a young transgender in the painful...
The Life Ahead(Italian, Netflix) Starring Sophia Loren, Ibrahima Gueye and Abril Zamora. Directed Edoardo Ponti Rating: *** ½ Some experiences are forever. For those of us who grew up worshipping the ground on which...
Soorarai Pottru(Tamil, Amazon Video With Hindi/English Subtitles) Starring Suriya, Paresh Rawal, and Aparna Balamurali Directed by Sudha Kongara Rating: **** Emotions run high when Maara(Suriya)runs out of money to pay for his business-class ticket to...
The New Mutants Starring Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga, Blu Hunt, and Henry Zaga. Directed by Josh Boone Rating: ** There are just 7 characters in the Mutant...
Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari Starring: Manoj Bajpai,Diljit Dosanjh, Fatima Sana Sheikh, Sripiya Pilagoaonkar, Anu Kapoor Directed by: Abhishek Sharma Rating: *** Suppose Tom was a Sardarji and Jerry a Maharashtrian.And suppose, just for the heck of it, they were at war...
Mirzapur , the popular webseries on Zee5 , is in a bit of plan change. The plan was to drop Vikrant Massey’s character Bablu in Season 1 and Divyendu Sharma’s character Munna in Season 2. Things...