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Review: 'Maharaja' (2024)

Sep 30, 2024 3 min read

Spoilers abound; trigger warning: sexual violence In case you haven't watched the film and don't plan to, you can check out the plot description on Wikipedia. Maharaja was bad for two reason…

Review: 'Paatal Lok' (2020)

May 16, 2020 3 min read

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I binge-watched Paatal Lok today, a show on Amazon Prime India about a cynical cop who is all too familiar with how the The System works and who gets a high profile case by chance – to investigate a c…