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Shwetkali (Season 1) ‘ZEE5’ Series Review: A Delightful Mixture of Genres

Reubyn Coutinho — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 03:14:14 +0000

Shwetkali (Season 1, 2023) is a mixed mash of genres. The Bengali series is set on the foundation of family drama with a dash of horror, a pinch of crime and investigation, dollops of blind faith and modernism to spice things up, and a seasoning of a backstory. This allows the present-day story to come…

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Lost (2023) Review: Yami Gautam and Pankaj Kapur Shine in The Exploration of All Things Lost

Reubyn Coutinho — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 18:14:40 +0000

Lost (2023) ‘Zee 5’ Movie Review: What is Lost? The film’s title and synopsis imply that a character is lost. That would call for a change to the ‘what’ in the first sentence with another word from the traditional ‘5Ws’, meaning ‘Who’ is lost would be the correct question. Too straightforward? Well, luckily, Aniruddha Roy…

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Chhatriwali (2023) Review: The ZEE5 Comedy Tries It’s Best To Educate About Contraceptives Within The Logic of A Hindi Film

Parth Pant — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 10:23:26 +0000

Chhatriwali (2023) review: Hindi cinema has been on a spree to make sex education more palatable to a purportedly puritanical audience ever since Ayushmann Khurrana’s sperm-donating Vicky broke sex taboos a decade ago. Khurrana pioneered a subgenre of North Indian middle-class films that addressed sex taboos while disguising their messages within typical Bollywood fare. Shubh…

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TVF Pitchers (Season 2) ‘Zee5’ Review: A Pitcher of Cold, Refreshing Beer but Without the Fizz

Aqsa Aleem — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 06:26:56 +0000

TVF Pitchers Season 2 (Zee 5) Review: “Tu beer nahi, ab tu whiskey hai bhai” Brimming with Naveen’s frothy dreams, Yogi’s squiffy sense of humor, and Mandal’s peppy quirks, the TVF platform is finally back with Pitchers- Season 2 after an excruciatingly protracted wait of 7 years. The iconic platform drama shook up the masses…

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Blurr (2022) Review & Ending, Explained – Who killed Gautami and why?

Lopamudra Mukherjee — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 14:29:52 +0000

Blurr feels that Hindi cinema is still coddled into the idea of a sociopath-haunted thriller. Blurry with its wayward execution that didn’t know whether it wanted to break out of cliches or frantically drown neck-deep into it, the Zee5 remake of Julia’s Eyes does stumble into a spoonfed conclusion, but what was the point really?…

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The Kashmir Files (2022): Vivek Agnihotri’s Hate Story II

highonfilms — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 06:08:37 +0000

In a scene in Kashmir Files, Radhika Menon, a faculty of ANU college, is making a speech to a group of students about how India illegally occupies Kashmir. At the end of the speech, the professor chants Azadi to ‘Manuvaad’ and ‘Sanghvaad’. The students join in on the chants, and the background music builds up…

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