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Superboys of Malegaon (2025)
Dir. Reema Kagti
Based on the life of a real small town filmmaker, this coming-of-age film is a familiar underdog story. After their…
A Nice Indian Boy (2025)
Dir. Roshan Sethi
Sure, many of the tropes in this feel-good romcom would be familiar. Naveen, a shy Indian doctor, loves Jay, a…
Black Warrant
With the fresh-faced cast and the sleek camerawork, Black Warrant, at first, didn’t seem to be the gritty adaptation of…
Dupahiya
Dir. Sonam Nair
A town with no crime is a dream everywhere. It means safety, security, and trust for the residents within, so…
Killer Soup
Dir. Abhishek Chaubey
How far would you go to please the one you love? You might indulge your spouse with a white lie…
Maamla Legal Hai
Dir. Rahul Pandey
With the stakes involved in plenty of cases, legal dramas tend to be more serious and dramatic. However, sometimes, ludicrous…
Poacher
Dir. Richie Mehta
In Poacher, two passionate but low-level wildlife preservers are tasked to bring down a massive crime ring that murders elephants…
Amar Singh Chamkila (2024)
Dir. Imtiaz Ali
At times of great societal turmoil, sometimes stars are born, not just to entertain the masses but to challenge the…
The Romantics
Dir. Smriti Mundhra
Bollywood is the biggest film industry in the world, in terms of output. After all, the Indian film industry churns…
Kaala Paani
Dir. Amit Golani & Sameer Saxena
There’s a lot happening in Netflix’s first Hindi survival thriller series Kaala Paani. The main plot follows the discovery of…
The Lying Life of Adults
Based on a novel, The Lying Life of Adults might feel, at first, like a standard Netflix coming-of-age series, complete…
Kohrra
Dir. Randeep Jha
Netflix India has been dominating the police procedural and mystery market, and Kohrra, its latest addition, is one of its…
Trial by Fire
Dir. Avani Deshpande & Prashant Nair
Tragedy can strike at any time, but some instances are preventable, and rare is the instance where people do seek…
Queen of Tears
Dir. Jang Young-woo & Kim Hee-won
To many people, marrying a rich heiress is the dream, since all that wealth can free a man from the…
Rainbow Rishta
Dir. Hridaye Nagpal & Jaydeep Sarkar
It’s refreshing to watch stories about queer people in the Global South unfold with this much joy and love and…
Bloodhounds
Dir. Kim Joo-hwan
Aspiring boxer Kim Gun-woo (Woo Do-hwan) befriends fellow rookie Hong Woo-jin (Lee Sang-yi) during the heights of Covid-19. After a…
Dhuin (2022)
Dir. Achal Mishra
Dhuin is evidently influenced by the Iranian filmmaker whose work its characters discuss: Abbas Kiarostami. Featuring non-professional actors and full…
12th Fail (2023)
Dir. Vidhu Vinod Chopra
When everyone around you is cheating, the temptation to join in is tempting, especially if you’re not confident in your…
Station Eleven
These days, pandemic stories can go either of two ways: horribly or profoundly. The realism may be too much to…
My Love: Six Stories of True Love
Dir. Carolina Sá & Chico Pereira
This docuseries follows six couples from Japan, the U.S., Spain, Brazil, and India, as they share their stories of a…
The Half of It (2020)
Dir. Alice Wu
This lovely romance is about Ellie, a straight-A student who takes money from a classmate, Paul, to write love letters…
Laapataa Ladies (2024)
Dir. Kiran Rao
When two young brides are mistakenly swapped on a train, it’s a difficult situation, much more so when the brides…
Pad Man (2018)
Dir. R. Balki
We’re not aware of the reason why Pad Man didn’t just adapt Arunachalam Muruganantham’s life straight up. The biopic replaces…
Gully Boy (2019)
Dir. Zoya Akhtar
This musical drama about a Mumbai street rapper was India’s official submission to the Oscars. It was also produced by…
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998)
Dir. Karan Johar
When the love triangle is set between the most popular guy in school, his tomboyish best friend, and the beautiful…
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008)
Dir. Aditya Chopra
Deception aside, there’s something charming about the way Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi brings romantic comedy tropes into an arranged…
Ghoul
Dir. Patrick Graham
Though relatively low on scares, this three-episode Indian miniseries fully believes in horror of a different kind: governments that indiscriminately…
Against the Tide (2023)
Dir. Sarvnik Kaur
Shot and edited in an immersive, unembellished style that makes it seem more like a work of narrative fiction than…
Aavesham (2024)
Dir. Jithu Madhavan
When it comes to examining the cycle of violence college students get into just to get their degree, Aavesham falls…
Jaane Jaan (2023)
Dir. Sujoy Ghosh
Jaane Jaan is one of those thrillers where you hope that the main characters would get away with murder. Based…
Chak De! India (2007)
Dir. Shimit Amin
What does it take to make a great hockey team? Of course, one must select the most skilled players. But…
Veer-Zaara (2004)
Dir. Yash Chopra
When a man languishes in a prison of an enemy country for more than two decades, anyone would wonder what…
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