True Review

True Review: City Lights

Critics Rating: 4.5 STARS Cast: Rajkumar Rao, Patraleka Direction: Hansal Mehta Production: Mukesh Bhatt, Vishesh Films, Fox Star Studios,Mahesh Bhatt. Based on:Metro Mani...

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Prime Time Thrills

Prime time on Star Plus is bookended (8 pm and 11.30pm) by one of Indian television’s most unusual daily soaps. Primarily, a time slot for family dramas costumed in gari...

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True Review: X-Men: Days of Future Past

Critics Rating: 3 STARS* Cast: Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender Direction: Bryan Singer Produced: Lauren Shuler Donner,  Bryan Singer,...

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True Review: Godzilla

Critics rating: 2 STARS* Cast: Bryan Lee Cranston, Aaron Perry Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Ken Watanabe, Juliette Binoche, David Russell Strathairn, Sally Cecilia Hawkin...

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True Review: Kochadaiiyaan

Critics Rating: 2.1/2 STARS* Cast: Rajinikanth, Deepika Padukone, Shobhana, Jackie Shroff, Nasser. Direction: Soundarya R.Ashwin, Produced: Sunil Lulla, Sunanda Murali, Pras...

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True Review: Primetime Fantasy RomCom

SAB TV’s fantasy RomCom Jeanie Aur Juju goes off air in June, to be replaced by an alien comedy — Badi Dooooor Se Aaye Hain. Jeanie Aur Juju, a prime time show hel...

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True Review: Children of War - Nine Months to Freedom

Critics Rating: 3.STARS* Cast :Indraneil Sengupta, Raima Sen, Pavan Malhotra, Farooque Sheikh, Riddhi Sen Rucha Inamdar, Victor Benerjee, Direction: Mrityunjay Devvrat Prod...

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Channel V: Changed Priority

In the mid-1990s, India’s youth saw the launch of an indigenous music channel – Channel [V]. The slew of programming was urban-centric, with irreverent humour, a n...

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True Review: Manjunath

Critic’s Rating: 2.stars. Cast: Sasho Sattyish Sarathy, Yashpal Sharma, Seema Biswas, Kishore Kadam, Anjori Alagh, Faisal Rashid, Rajesh Khattar, Producer: Viacom 18 M...

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Khera, Stand Up To Be Counted

Television serial makers resort to ploys to sustain viewer ship – a new track, a new character or someone getting lost, etc. This writer hadn’t been watching Uttar...

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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: OF THAT HUMAN FACTOR

Currently, the boom in Artificial Intelligence has been viewed with mounting dread or em...

December 9 2025

POWERFUL PEOPLE: IDEAS BECOME MOVEMENTS HERE

A conversation between Vinta Nanda and Shenali Rajaratnam, a young global leader shaping...

December 8 2025

RETROSCOPE: FLASHBACKING WITH....CHAUDVIN KA CHAND!!

Monojit Lahiri met up with the still-gorgeous Waheeda Rehman at her sea-front flat in Ba...

December 7 2025