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Dear NRI filmmakers, India is more than Bollywood, Bharatanatyam and samosas

From The Office to Never Have I Ever and Best of the Best, Indian culture is too often reduced to Bollywood, weddings, arranged marriages, and...

27.09.2026 30

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Ted Lasso should have ended with Season 3. The new storyline has lost the plot

Seven of ten episodes of Ted Lasso’s Season 4 are out, and the writers are still focusing on the same five characters, whose storylines stagnated...

20.09.2026 40

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Women can’t drive saala is the factory setting of Indian men

Indian men think roads are their fiefdom. And they just can't handle a woman overtaking them.

17.09.2026 40

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Ted Lasso is reusing Chak De! India plot in 2026. It is 20 years too late

I am not criticising Ted Lasso for borrowing from an Indian superhit. My grouse is that even two decades later, the makers chose to show cliques as...

30.08.2026 50

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The carefully curated selfhood of Diljit Dosanjh

Diljit Dosanjh is politically vague. But his films are clear reminders of Punjab’s wounds

22.07.2026 60

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Lock Upp and Alliance are a much-needed jolt to Indian reality TV. Bigg Boss became boring

Even Roadies and Splitsvilla have lost their loyal audience. The new shows try out bold themes, include debates on current topics, and devise clever...

13.07.2026 40

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