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.
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 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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Pariyerum Perumal’s rawness came from the fact that it didn’t try to universalise the Dalit experience. Its protagonist, Pariyan, is a witness, a survivor, and, crucially, a question mark aimed at the viewer. Bollywood, however, rarely trusts its audience with discomfort.
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Mandala Murders is a copy-paste cult drama with no pulse. If you want eerie towns, esoteric cults, and detectives chasing twisted truths, there are better shows out there.
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In Udaan, you can find the first traces of Motwane's constant: his love for broken men trying to stitch themselves back together by defying the moulds the world tries to put them in.
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After 25 years in Bollywood, Abhishek Bachchan is still here, still acting. And that is something.
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Looking back, Jagga Jasoos feels like a road not taken—the one that could’ve led to a more playful, meta, narrative-rich, visually daring Bollywood. Instead, we got stuck with a resurgence of toxic masculinity, lazy biopics, and franchise fatigue.
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