After the huge success of the first season of Sacred Games, I think a lot of actors went to the show runners and requested them to put more profanity in the dialogues. Swearing gives an…
For the last several years Disney has been producing live action remakes of its animated classics in the hopes of retelling the story through photorealistic visuals. The decision is…
In March of 2018, Channel 4’s sting operation on the chief people at helm at Cambridge Analytica opened a Pandora’s Box and sent seismic waves throughout the online world, the aftershocks of…
Water (2005) is the third instalment in Deepa Mehta’s Elements trilogy. The day before the shooting was supposed to begin, several protestors belonging to a prominent right-wing organisation…
It is difficult to write about a television series that is based on such a grim incident because one has to be careful about one's choice of words.
One is tempted to use words such as…
2018 saw Nicholas Cage go on a hallucinogenic John Wick style rampage, some superb dramas from Asian and Asian-American directors, at least four bone-chilling horror/thriller movies, Marvel…
The trouble with later seasons of a hit TV/web series is how to keep the magic of the first season alive without atrophying since a lot of the times the same formulaic spirit is used to form…
The Odia word thaka , meaning a crooked and deceitful person comes from the word “Thugee” or Thug. The Thugee cult were a notorious band of criminals residing in the jungles of Central India…
The predicament with producing anti-establishment art is that you are always going to polarise public opinion and the polarisation will produce views that will depend on political alignments…
Noir is not just about the dexterous use of light and dark. It also symbolises chaos, morally ambiguous characters and a cynical take on reality. Anurag Kashyap and Vikram Motwane’s Sacred…