I was in Chennai on my summer vacation break in May 1991 when the dastardly and gruesome assassination of Rajiv Gandhi happened. In the very early hours of that day, I was woken from deep sleep to hear the breaking news. Since then, I have closely followed every detail of the investigation that ensued. I... Continue Reading →
IC 814 – The Kandahar Hijack – My Flash Review & More!
The IC 814 flight hijack incident is one that is too embedded in the collective consciousness of a whole generation of Indians who were old enough to see it unfolding back in December 1999. As a nation, if there are few events for which we have not achieved closure, this would certainly be among the... Continue Reading →
The Freelancer (Web Series) – My Flash Review!
First up, the motivation to watch this web series is of course the man behind it – Neeraj Pandey who has built a formidable reputation for himself in the thriller particularly the Spy thriller genre with works like Baby, Aiyyary and The Special Ops series. Pandey is credited with creating and co-writing this series while... Continue Reading →
The Railway Men – My Flash Review!
When you watch The Railway Men, what strikes you most are the highly superior production values and the making of the series. I haven’t seen one in recent times on Indian OTT platforms that has taken such painstaking efforts to recreate an Indian heartland town of the 80s. For people like me who belong to... Continue Reading →
Guilty Minds (Web Series) – My Flash Review!
For most of us, the only exposure to courts is through films. And usually, films with court scenes are lumped under the genre of “Court room dramas”. Essentially because of the high drama that unfolds in the court scenes. Arguments and counter arguments, suspense around sudden appearances of key witnesses, witnesses going hostile at the... Continue Reading →
The Family Man – 2 – My Flash Review!
Family Man – 1 was released without much fanfare but went on to become a very popular Indian web series. Therefore, Family Man – 2 obviously was much awaited and had created quite a bit of expectations among the viewers. For the creators, it is always a huge challenge to raise the bar for a... Continue Reading →
Scam 1992 – The Harshad Mehta Story – My Review
When I first came to Bombay in 1989, many facets of the city fascinated me. One among them was ‘Dalal Street’. There was a family friend working in the Bombay Stock Exchange and I went to meet him. One of the 1st things I told him was that I wanted to see the “trading ring”.... Continue Reading →
Crackdown (Web Series) – My Flash Review!
Crackdown is an espionage thriller about a covert team on a mission to save the country. I should have said, “Yet another”. This genre has been crowded of late with OTT offerings in India - The Family Man, Bard of Blood, Special Ops to name a few. In Crackdown, a covert team named “Direct Operations”... Continue Reading →
Bandish Bandits (Web series) – My Review
“Bandish Bandits” – To start with, the title itself was quite intriguing as I was trying to guess the link between the two words. As I started watching the web series, now streaming on Amazon Prime, the mystery unraveled. The entire concept of this is about conflicts. Conflicts at multiple levels. Classical Music Vs Contemporary... Continue Reading →
Avrodh (web series) – My Flash Review
Any sequel or a remake cannot escape comparisons with the original version. Avrodh is again a long form version of the 2019 super hit Hindi film – Uri - The Surgical Strike and hence comparisons with the film cannot be avoided. Based on one chapter of the book titled India’s Most Fearless authored by journalists... Continue Reading →
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