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Shubhra Gupta

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The Trial: Pyaar, Kaanoon, Dhokha: Season 2 (2025) 2/5 EDIT “ Kajol is competent, but as the headliner of the show, is always head and shoulders above the other characters...” – The Indian Express Oct 7, 2025 Full Review Do You Wanna Partner: Season 1 (2025) 20% .5/5 EDIT “...‘Do You Wanna Partner’ is plain terrible: there’s not one idea or performance that it can grab on to to save itself from going under, and staying there.” – The Indian Express Oct 7, 2025 Full Review The Ba***ds of Bollywood: Season 1 (2025) 89% 2.5/5 EDIT “Ultimately, despite some nice flourishes – Shah Rukh’s cameo is a hoot, but he has been edgier and funnier before — the Ba***ds of Bollywood is simply not self-aware, and yes, not fun enough.” – The Indian Express Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Only Murders in the Building: Season 5 (2025) 89% 4/5 EDIT “...the new season hits all the right notes, with the same serio-bizarre fun layered with emotion, a hard mix to pull off, which has been such a strong hook all along, with the exception of the previous season.” – The Indian Express Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Salakaar: Season 1 (2025) 1/5 EDIT “... this whole thing is a cringe-fest.” – The Indian Express Aug 20, 2025 Full Review The Hunt - The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case: Season 1 (2025) 3.5/5 EDIT “For the most part, The Hunt stays gripping, never taking its eyes off the ball for too long, while giving us the impression of hewing close to what happened, before, after and on the day of the assassination. ” – The Indian Express Aug 20, 2025 Full Review Andhera: Season 1 (2025) 50% 2/5 EDIT “...it all becomes too much of a juvenile mish-mash, with elements too eager to please millennials as well as an older demographic. The convoluted plot, which keeps darting off in different directions, stays super busy” – The Indian Express Aug 20, 2025 Full Review Saare Jahan Se Accha: The Silent Guardians: Season 1 (2025) 56% 2.5/5 EDIT “The best thing about the handsomely-mounted show is that it steers clear of vicious jingoism while waving the flag. You wish it didn’t peter off towards the end.” – The Indian Express Aug 13, 2025 Full Review Mandala Murders: Season 1 (2025) 29% 2.5/5 EDIT “But just as you can get used to even the sickening crunch of broken body parts if repeated too often, ‘Mandala Murders’ runs out of ideas, and then all there’s left is repetitive loops, and situations which stretch credulity.” – The Indian Express Jul 28, 2025 Full Review Rangeen: Season 1 (2025) 20% 2/5 EDIT “It’s like something is about to go on the boil and then being allowed to fizzle out. It turns the central pair uninteresting, as well as the series, which ultimately becomes a case of a few lunges, not enough parries.” – The Indian Express Jul 25, 2025 Full Review Special OPS: Season 2 (2025) 67% 3.5/5 EDIT “Given its length, there definitely are spots where things slacken, but on the whole, this buzzy spy-saga stays mostly on-point, always entertaining.” – The Indian Express Jul 25, 2025 Full Review Criminal Justice: A Family Matter: Season 1 (2025) 2/5 EDIT “Yes, this is a series that has taken the trouble to front a character with special needs, but to make such a statement without qualifying it is just plain damaging to those who live with the condition...” – The Indian Express Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Kankhajura: Season 1 (2025) 60% 2.5/5 EDIT “While ‘Kankhajura’ is filled with good performances — everyone does their job well — the writing doesn’t surprise as much as it could have. There’s also the standard difficulty of everything becoming a stretch because of the eight-episode mandate...” – The Indian Express Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Black, White & Gray - Love Kills: Season 1 (2025) 3/5 EDIT “This is an example of a well-cast ensemble working together: having stars front a story almost always causes dis-balance. A plot told with conviction and backed by solid performances, is all you need.” – The Indian Express Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Rana Naidu: Season 2 (2025) 50% 2.5/5 EDIT “Rana Naidu is back for a second-go-round, and this season is as kinetic as the first, fists and bullets flying. It also dials down the crassness, which is a good thing.” – The Indian Express Jun 13, 2025 Full Review Gram Chikitsalay: Season 1 (2025) 40% 2.5/5 EDIT “But the insistence on keeping everything cosy makes ‘Gram Chikitsalay’ safe and staid, giving off a very Panchayat redux vibe, which may have very well been the one that the creators were going for, but which colours its brand new series in sameness.” – The Indian Express May 13, 2025 Full Review The Royals: Season 1 (2025) 36% 2/5 EDIT “‘The Royals’ needed sharper, felt writing. When a character exhorts a bunch of influencers, ‘do ‘Gram the hell out of us’, it says more about the intention — and the potential audience — of the series than anything else.” – The Indian Express May 12, 2025 Full Review Khauf: Season 1 (2025) 88% 2.5/5 EDIT “Khauf works best when its women, with all their pain and their messy back stories, are on screen, doing their thing.” – The Indian Express Apr 24, 2025 Full Review Reacher: Season 3, Episode 8 (2025) 2.5/5 EDIT “...despite Alan Ritchson, In and As Reacher, giving it everything he’s got– and it’s a lot– there were moments when I wished he would hurry up and wrap it all up.” – The Indian Express Mar 28, 2025 Full Review Khakee: The Bengal Chapter: Season 1 (2025) 56% 2/5 EDIT “A promising start quickly descends into predictability. The beats are familiar, the character types are even more so. ” – The Indian Express Mar 22, 2025 Full Review Dupahiya: Season 1 (2025) 88% 3/5 EDIT “...the occasional clouds created by the busy plot...are dispelled by the show’s determinedly cheerful air: leave the viewer smiling is clearly the mandate.” – The Indian Express Mar 8, 2025 Full Review Suzhal- The Vortex: Season 2 (2025) 50% 2/5 EDIT “Sadly, Season 2...fails to hit the same notes...The locations are stunning, but the stormy interactions of the characters by the seaside...seems more to set the scene than to advance the plot, which keeps getting bogged down in repetitive loops.” – The Indian Express Mar 3, 2025 Full Review Dabba Cartel: Season 1 (2025) 64% 2.5/5 EDIT “Not everything lands, but it looks like this dabba cartel is just getting started. Clearly, there’s more to come.” – The Indian Express Feb 28, 2025 Full Review Reacher: Season 3 (2025) 98% 2.5/5 EDIT “...the workman-like handling of the story makes everything so by-the-numbers that I nearly zoned out in the first couple of episodes...” – The Indian Express Feb 21, 2025 Full Review Doctors: Season 1 (2024) 2.5/5 EDIT “I like that the sugarcoating is kept at a minimum. It makes you feel, and think.” – The Indian Express Feb 14, 2025 Full Review
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