Divyesh Wadke

Now a days its fashion to overload anything and everything with DEI. They have overdid it to such an extent in this one, that it almost becomes laughable. What they try to imply is unless you are a DEI candidate and have tons of unnecessary emotional baggage and you play victimhood card every day of your life, you can not be good at anything. Without these credentials you must be pure evil. Its as if no good person in this world is a 'normal' balanced person. This one is perfect example of how to ruin a good plot by creating weak, lame characters who are begging for pity every minute on the screen. Shows like these truly undermine the real life people who actually do something good in life. Shows like these promote celebrating undeserving people for no reason. 2 stars are for good plot, camerawork and soundwork. Deducting the rest for pathetic characters and execution.

Initially I was hesitant to watch this one out of sheer fear that it may disappoint, such is the high bar set by its nemesis in the movie format. There have been many attempts to portray the legendary assassin since then, but none can match the brilliance of Edward Fox. Though Eddie Redmayne came a lot closer, the shades of emotion added to his character gave it away. I would definitely give Ronan Bennet 4 stars for writing a brilliant plot and the director(s) another 4 stars for tight execution. Editing is crisp. Kudos to the editors team. Camera work is brilliant too. May be those are not the best, but having lived in London, I Loved the shots of its skyline. But what disappoints is characters. We have a clumsy, arrogant and narcissist agent who fails again and again but yet she is considered as the best for some unknown reasons. May be the creators are just riding the wave of feminism which compels every filmmaker to add one or more superstrong female character(s), even if that is totally unnecessary. Portraying her as a 'normal' agent would have helped. Then we have a rich guy who is suddenly going against the principles of capitalism and trying to bring transparency in financial world! Hello, which planet are we on? Then lastly, The Jackal! The baggage of a family and emotions seems stretched a bit far. That seems a lot unlike 'The Jackal'. Some other assassins might be like that, but somehow a legendary character like this does not fit that frame. I wanted to give 3.5 stars, but that is not an option, hence 4 stars. I will look forward to season 2, but I doubt it will do any better.

Another woke waste in Netflix's arsenal. One "I-Know-It-All" lady keeps womansplaining everything to almost everyone for no reason. She has got all the signs of wokism - she is arrogant, outrightly disrespective towards others, feminazi, racist, blabbering meaningless things at regular intervals. All white characters are idiots. All male characters are idiots. President is gay. All good characters are females, preferably black. Female characters, if white, are idiots or alcoholics or cruel. Completely avoid. Your time is more valuable than watching this crap. Lastly, has Netflix considered changing its name to 'Wokeflix'? If not, its high time they do it.

Hauntingly beautiful..!! Pavan Malhotra has given a performance of lifetime. The ease with which he changes from a loving family man to a scheming cunning person when cornered is terrifying. Ranveer Shorey is always a pleasure to watch. Supriya Pathak and others have also done their part beautifully. On couple of occassions I felt that the script might have left lose ends, but later all those ends connect. One of the finest dark theme Indian series.

This one was badmouthed by usual section of society as a political movie even before it was released. Most of them had their review scripts ready even before they watched the trailer. But as everything else screening along with this movie was junk (specially trash like Jawan :) ), we decided to watch this and it turned out to be a good decision. The movie is very nicely made and highlights the efforts that went behind making of the Indian Covid Vaccine. Sometimes things become technical and director have tried to explain things in layman's terms. The cast has performed well and there is very little exaggeration or dramatization. Some frames involving personal lives of the scientists felt dramatic, but may be that is how it was back then due to the workload through which the whole vaccine research fraternity went through. THERE IS ABSLUTELY NO POLITICAL STATEMENTS OR VIEWS IN THE MOVIE. So if anyone is telling you that it is political movie, you can conclude that the person telling you this is a fool and avoid discussing anything involving usage of brain with him/her.

One of the finest series during times when the quality of content on OTT has fallen to abysmal lows. The storyline is straight forward and most of the characters are also from the crowd around us. So do not expect anything dramatic or over the top. The series is all about how a human being behaves when faced with situations he/she never faced before. Even during the toughest of time, the good or bad may come out of you which will be even surprising to you. Having overcome Covid recently, people can relate to some of this. Performance by most of the cast are good and natural. Watch it if you have patience to wait and allow the story to unfold. Avoid it if you love typical OTT and Bollywood content of drama, foul language, semi porn and nudity, masala, woke characters and over the top performances.