Streaming Guy, journalist and 🍅-approved critic at @THRIndia_ . Ex @filmcompanion. Host of The Streaming Show podcast. Trying to be the hero of my own movie
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12 Aug 2025
Feels good to be back. Season 3 of #TheStreamingShow podcast drops weekly from tomorrow on my channel, featuring a helluva line-up of meaningful, timely conversations about where we are as an industry, with some of the most perceptive minds around
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"Not that it needed confirmation, but Naseeruddin Shah’s performance cements his status as India’s greatest living actor. He is transcendent as the old Sikh man,reframing the neurological war between lucidity and dementia as a chronological battle between masculinity and emotion"
Jun 12
Main Vaapas Aaunga is not perfect, but I fell in love with the film. A newer Imtiaz Ali, a vintage Naseer. Instant favourite.
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If life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic.
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"Aarti Bajaj is again editor here, but the agitated excitement of Chamkila is replaced by a more familiar, conservative flow."
Jun 12
Heart's in the right place, rest is askew. MAIN VAAPAS AAUNGA review livemint.com/mint-lounge/art…
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"The visual treatment, though, is inconsistent, the action interrupted by black-and-white newsreels and strange, pulpy colour stills".
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Didn't feel #MainVaapasAaunga nearly as much as I wanted to. This story, those actors, this "subject" in the hands of Imtiaz, it's sort of nuts to not be constantly devastated and affected. But the film only happened to me in moments. (Perhaps I'm dead inside).
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Loved the idea of the Diljit character being the only one who can "understand" and connect with his fading grandfather, but their scenes felt underwritten and relied too heavily on the two delightful actors alone.
Not to mention Nirvair's meandering stand up to Swades arc.
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In the end it's impossible not to feel for the subject matter and those horrid Partition sequences. But I felt the length more than I felt the magic.
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Jun 13
Travis Knight, director Masters Of The Universe, doesn't seem to have a meaningful comedic bone in his body. A generic, empty "mashing action figures together" lights and sounds show that's spectacularly devoid of personality
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Jun 12
"As fundamentally solid as Raakh looks, however, there is a sense of structure and convention about it. It’s as if the series derives its cinema of grimness from a genre that already exists."
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Jun 12
Curious to see Raakh on Prime Video considering that, thus far, Netflix has had the monopoly on the "horrid Delhi crimes" genre with Delhi Crime, Sector 36, Trial By Fire and even in non-fiction with House Of Secrets and Indian Predator.
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(Prime Video has standouts on the thoughtful, fictional Delhi crime saga front, of course, with Khauf and Paatal Lok)
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Jun 12
Missed mentioning Black Warrant. Not based on a single crime but a cornerstone nonetheless.
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Jun 12
Prime Video's #Raakh is a crime drama that, at its best, is presented as a horror narrative. But it's oddly enamoured by its (Ranga Billa-based) killers. A well-crafted show that flirts with greatness. Still wrestling with much of it. Reviewed it here
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#PrimeVideo's #Raakh is a haunting crime drama that's diluted by the demands of a longform narrative. Check out @suchin545's review here.
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Jun 11
Had a spoiler-filled chat with @jimSarbh & director #RobbieGrewal about the gentle achievement of #MadeInIndiaATitanStory, those heart-winning moments, the delightful JRD Tata scenes, that insanely huggable ensemble and making us all a little happier.
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Jun 11
Just yesterday I was thinking about what Puja Sarup is doing next. She was the best thing about The Mehta Boys
#VirDas (@thevirdas) began the year making audiences laugh; now he is ready to pivot to horror. The actor, comedian, & filmmaker has officially unveiled the ensemble cast for his upcoming directorial project #BaaraNumber.
Read the exclusive by @JustinJRao
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Jun 10
When I'm in my elderly era (not long now), I too will look back at my life and have flashbacks where I picture my younger self looking like Vedang Raina.
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