BIFF 2025 | Anoop Lokkur’s Don’t Tell Mother is both a love letter to childhood and an unflinching look at its shadows.
About The Author
Debiparna Chakraborty is a film, TV, and culture critic dissecting media at the intersection of gender, politics, and power.
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The Ba***ds Of Bollywood Review | Aryan Khan’s Satire On Industry Glitz Bursts With Masala And Chaos
It is a high-energy, meta-driven opening hour that’s equal parts fun and exhausting, made for those who keep up with the Bollywood gossip brigade more than their family Whatsapp group dramas.
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Freaky Tales unfolds as four interconnected narratives, each eccentric in its own way, stitched together by the looming presence of fascist forces.
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Venice Film Festival 2025 | Grand Ciel is a commentary on the quiet brutality of capitalism’s dispassionate machinery, of disappearing worker rights, and the cost of countless human lives caught in the loop.
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Alfred Gough and Miles Millar’s Wednesday can still be a ghoulish delight, thanks to strong casting, sharp performances, and artistic flourish. But the series undermines its own strengths and teeters closer to being television engineered for distraction rather than immersion.
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Alongside films like Thelma and series like Only Murders in the Building, The Thursday Murder Club offers something we need more of—silver sleuths as protagonists.
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The angry reactions to the trailer of ‘Param Sundari’ on social media only prove that Bollywood cannot keep claiming cosmopolitanism, while clinging to its arrogant Hindi hegemony.
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In Amazon Prime’s latest original—an adaptation of J.P. Monninger’s 2017 novel—no subplot develops, no friendships are fleshed out, and certainly no counterbalance emerges to save the central romance from its mind-numbing blandness.
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Once a filmmaker of enormous potential, Gowariker’s name is now associated with creative irrelevance and a political turn to the right. His role as the jury head of the National Film Awards has also reignited criticism of the institution itself.
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In a country where celebrities are deified and worshipped, we do not want to know that they live with the same fears, melancholia, and biochemical imbalances as the rest of us.
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