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India’s Coke Studio is a big fat serving of mainstream. It should learn from Pakistan

Coke Studio Bharat has barely any new voices, and the folk music that should be at its heart remains missing. In Pakistan, the show has made musical...

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Wake Up Sid to Animal to Ramayana—Ranbir Kapoor keeps changing the game

There is nothing wrong with an actor returning to what works. In fact, the box office often encourages it. But that is precisely why Ranbir Kapoor’s...

30.08.2026 40

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Bollywood’s heroes have a man-child problem. They want to destroy the world over daddy issues

If today’s Bollywood hero does not get emotional validation, he responds with rage, violence, drinking, a machine gun. The slightest emotional...

29.08.2026 20

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Tom Alter deserved a better curtain call. Dial 1975 was not it

Dial 1975 gives Tom Alter the same role he has played for much of his career — a police officer. But this time, it feels less like a character and...

23.08.2026 20

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Bollywood is facing a dialogue deficit. SRK is the only consistent performer

From Darr’s Rahul saying “K-K-K-Kiran” to Om Kapoor’s iconic “Picture abhi baaki hai mere dost”, SRK has repeatedly delivered lines that...

17.08.2026 20

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After years of reinvention, Emraan Hashmi returns to the image that made him a star

Emraan Hashmi’s erotic thrillers found commercial success in the 2000s partly because they offered something that mainstream Bollywood rarely did at...

16.08.2026 10

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Taekwondo has no future in India. I have seen the crisis up close

Taekwondo now helps dance teachers find children who can do a cartwheel, or is used by school management to attract new admissions through a 15-day...

16.08.2026 10

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Bollywood heroes are returning to old playgrounds—Akshay back in comedy, Hashmi in horror

After spending years trying to reinvent themselves, Bollywood’s ageing stars are discovering that audiences may not necessarily want a new version...

10.08.2026 10

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Move over Bigg Boss, Bhojpuri Bawaal is India’s best reality show. Tej Pratap is a riot

‘Bhojpuri Bawaal’ is almost a compilation of various celeb vlogs. An added treat is that for once, we don’t see Bhojpuri celebrities painted in...

09.08.2026 30

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Help! Originality is drowning in a sea of spin-offs. It’s not nostalgia just lazy writing

Not every side character needs a backstory, and making Stuart or Georgie lead a show proves television has officially lost the plot.

04.08.2026 20

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Ramayana doesn’t need Marvel-style spectacle. It needs good storytelling

The trailer of Nitesh Tiwari's Ramayana feels less like a story adapted from a centuries-old epic written by sages and more like an adaptation by a...

02.08.2026 40

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Christopher Nolan’s IMAX obsession has cheated most of us out of his real Odyssey

The Odyssey becomes ‘epic’ only for those privileged enough to access a 15/70mm IMAX screening. India doesn’t even have one.

21.07.2026 30

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Dear Bollywood, learn from Sing Geetham how songs can take a story forward

In Singeetam Srinivasa Rao’s Sing Geetham, conversations exist within music; the dialogues themselves are musical, not add-ons.

20.07.2026 30

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Mollywood Times is one of Indian cinema’s sharpest critiques of film industry

Mollywood Times, directed by Abhinav Sunder Nayak, suggests that major production houses sometimes invest in films for reasons beyond box-office...

19.07.2026 30

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Super Subbu is more Panchayat than Sex Education

During Subbu's training, the instructor simply asks the trainees to shout ‘sex education’ as loudly as they can, and the training is over. That,...

06.07.2026 20

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The Angry Young Man is gone. Bollywood now celebrates only the anger

A lot has changed between Amitabh Bachchan's Zanjeer and Ranbir Kapoor's Animal. Today, the hero is the very man the old Angry Young Man used to...

05.07.2026 30

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What Welcome to the Jungle can learn from Priyadarshan’s Hera Pheri

People in comedies now come well-dressed and sleek-haired. They stand in one place and deliver lines. The films are walkie-talkie conversations.

01.07.2026 40

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How Bollywood shrunk Ravi Kishan to fit the gamcha and paan stereotype

The industry wants his presence, but not his range, reducing a capable actor to an accent, a costume and a stereotype.

29.06.2026 40

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Shekhar Tonite is a meme recap. India needs a real late-night show

One thing Shekhar Suman does in almost every episode of his show is perform a set of political jokes, laugh at them himself, and appreciate himself...

29.06.2026 30

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Chunky Panday has made a comeback. And it’s not a movie

This shampoo commercial is different from slow-motion hair flips and a doctor suggesting the brand to fight dandruff. It’s all about Panday’s...

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