Shubhra Gupta

Bade Miyan Chote Miyan movie review: Could it be that some AI app secretly overtook the writing, and made the film into squeezable paste, with zero flavour? Otherwise how can you turn these two heroes -- Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff -- into such dull clones of themselves?

Amar Singh Chamkila movie review: Diljit Dosanjh internalises Amar Singh Chamkila's hard-scrabble life and pain, and distills it into his fine-grained performance, playing an artiste who lived and died by his beliefs.

Small-town women taking on the high and mighty is a familiar theme, but one that can always do with a refresh, because what’s not to like about feisty ladies? Just last month, we had Bhumi Pednekar’s brave reporter revealing the true face of a gang that preyed upon helpless girls in a Muzaffarpur shelter. Now it’s Raveena Tandon, playing a Patna lawyer who goes after a powerful politician’s son, for his misdeeds.

Do Aur Do Pyaar movie review: Vidya Balan, who expectedly gets top billing, is all practised ease in the romantic-comedy, also starring Pratik Gandhi, Ileana D'Cruz and Sendhil Ramamurthy.

Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2 review: This ‘LSD' redux is not as original, but is as sharp, and as impactful. When Dibakar Banerjee cuts us, we bleed.

Under The Bridge review: The first thing that strikes you about the series, two episodes of which are out, to be followed with one each every week, is the spot-on casting of Vritika Gupta as the victim, Reena Virk.

Ruslaan movie review: Aayush Sharma film takes you back to the era when Bollywood flicks didn't really bother about coherent plots as long as there were enough formulaic set-pieces.

Ranneeti Balakot and Beyond review: Jimmy Sheirgill, Lara Dutta's tepid and oredictable show stretches interminably over nine episodes with obvious writing and performances.

Heeramandi review: It's when Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Netflix show turns its eyes on the faded grandeur of its ‘Lahore ki ranis' in their gilded cages, grime peeking out from behind their finery, that the show is most effective.

The Broken News 2 review: The Sonali Bendre-Jaideep Ahlawat show does well enough in the parts where it borrows bravely from current events, and tells us how all ‘news' can be ‘spun' so that a particular point-of-view is cemented.