The OTT menu is looking hot as ever with brand new offerings. Sukanya Verma tells you what you can catch this week.
The second edition of the Critics Choice Shorts and Series Awards honoured short films and Web series, and was held on a grand scale at the Taj Hotel in Santa Cruz, north west Mumbai.
'We need to be proud of our Maratha history and should be ready to tell the world our stories and not just keep them limited to Maharashtra.'
If at all the series can be criticised, it would be for its all-Brahmin characters and keeping out the caste problems, the misogyny and the backwardness and ugliness of rural India, points out Deepa Gahlot.
When Noor engages in shallow activism for the heck of it, it rambles and drags, feels Sukanya Verma.
Given that this is a Prakash Jha film, drama does knock on the door, observes Joginder Tuteja.
This Mohanlal suspense drama may well go down as yet another modern day classic, raves Joginder Tuteja.
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The trailer doesn't give away too much of the story and keeps the mystery alive, feels Namrata Thakker.
'Ajay Devgn is perfect to slip into Idris Elba's shoes.' 'Taapsee can play any role under the sun.'
Amazon Prime Video has doubled its content investments in India and announced as many as 41 new titles in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and English, thereby throwing an open challenge to their streaming competitor, Netflix.
OTT has been flooded with a number of film and Web series releases, and many of them are very entertaining.
Mithya fumbles to make headway towards truth or dare, observes Sukanya Verma.
How do the shows we watch and the songs we listen to, affect us? The question bothers Geetanjali Krishna after a domestic worker gushes about her six-month-old daughter's love for a nagin-themed TV show and Mika's Gandi Baat.
While the sympathy vote for Sushant Singh Rajput's tragic demise must have played an important part in tilting the scales in Chhichhore's favour, the qualitative difference between the two films is so high that it could not have been a close shave, argues Subhash K Jha.
What better occasion than International Women's Day to take a look?
LSD: Love Scandal and Doctors keeps you engrossed right through, applauds Joginder Tuteja.
Radhika Apte's espionage skills, a quartet of romances in Visakhapatnam and a whole lot of other adventures and thrills, there's tons of action to catch on OTT this week.
Footfairy is a must watch for anyone who enjoys a psychological crime thriller, feels Moumita Bhattacharjee.
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Ready to plan your week's binging schedule on the OTT? Sukanya Verma offers a menu full of curious offerings.
Swara Bhasker and Akshay Oberoi shine in this gripping revenge drama about human trafficking, applauds Namrata Thakker.
Unusual means of connecting with the electorate are also being adopted by ministers in the Yogi Adityanath government, who are doing their bit to reach out to the voters.
Priceless gems, tucked away in movie history.
Even with an ongoing pandemic, theatres in many states functioning at 50 per cent occupancy, a quieter social life and fewer movies, Bollywood still managed to pack in plenty of drama and trauma, fun and festivity, love and war into the year.
Isn't It Romantic is about a New York woman hit on the head during a mugging. The impact leaves her feeling that she is in a rom-com.
Who are the Bollywood actors making their debut on OTT platforms, the go-to form of entertainment during the lockdown?
Joginder Tuteja looks at August's OTT releases.
Angad Bedi and Sikander Kher shine in this fast-paced thriller, notes Namrata Thakker.
This July, Bollywood stars Akshaye Khanna, Taapsee Pannu, Farhan Akhtar, Jimmy Sheirgill, Shilpa Shetty and Paresh Rawal will be seen on OTT screens.
Some exciting news shows, some gripping sequels coming up.
Here are Sukanya Verma's favourite female performances of 2021.
Kanu Behl's Titli is one of the best films from India in recent years, says Aseem Chhabra from the Zurich film festival.
There are several women-centric movies set to release post lockdown, and most of them are quite quirky.
'They wanted a character, who could speak both Tamil and Hindi. That's how I got on board.'
From South Korean treats to internationally acclaimed series to home-grown delights, here are Sukanya Verma's favourite OTT shows of 2021.
With theatres shutting down, night clubs and restaurants closed and self-isolation being the latest key word, all eyes may just have turned to television.
Stranger Things Season 4 is dedicatedly macabre and menacing, its deadly ambitions and volatile tempo keeps the mood edge-of-the-seat, applauds Sukanya Verma.