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Licence to flail: Deepanjana Pal on the outstanding streaming series Slow Horses

India, Oct. 24 -- When Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) arrived on our screens in Season 1 of Slow Horses (2022-), he seemed anything but heroic. To quote Oldman, he "single-handedly lowered the public's e... Read More


How to catch an Amul baby and other odd lessons

New Delhi, Oct. 18 -- There's nothing odd about a woman who always keeps a handkerchief handy. In India, it's a familiar sight. If the handkerchief has "brightly coloured edging in pink, green, orange... Read More


Case closed? Deepanjana Pal writes on Drishyam 3

India, Oct. 10 -- Perhaps the boldest move in Drishyam: The Conclusion comes from director and co-producer Abhishek Pathak, who has announced that he plans to end this immensely successful film series... Read More


Read between the sheets

India, Sept. 27 -- In a curious twist, the most sensual scenes in the new A-rated K-drama, The Scandal, turn out to be not the ones with nude bodies, but the ones in which fully-clothed people read le... Read More


Read between the sheets: K-drama The Scandal and the power of words

India, Sept. 25 -- In a curious twist, the most sensual scenes in the new A-rated K-drama, The Scandal, turn out to be not the ones with nude bodies, but the ones in which fully-clothed people read le... Read More


Spell check: The film Magic Faraway Tree is gentle balm for our times, says Deepanjana Pal

India, Sept. 11 -- Of late, Instagram has suffused my timeline with clips of Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman talking about Practical Magic 2. The two lead actors seem as surprised as the rest of us t... Read More


Burn after watching: Deepanjana Pal writes on the streaming show Furious

India, Aug. 28 -- I've been looking forward to Mondays of late. The blame for this unnatural behaviour falls on the terrific crime series Furious. Until this series, which drops new episodes every Mo... Read More


Hollywood is storming the Indian box office, setting new records

India, Aug. 14 -- Considering that he's a scrappy kid from a decidedly unglamorous part of New York City, Spider-Man has no business being so popular in India, a land of over-the-top heroes such as Dh... Read More


Seeing red: Deepanjana Pal writes on the Soviet-era space-race show Star City

India, July 31 -- What if the Soviet Union had won the space race in 1969? This is the premise of the streaming series For All Mankind (2019-), in which creators Ronald D Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben N... Read More