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Criminal Justice Season 4 Review: Pankaj Tripathi Is A Show Stealer! (Photo Credit – YouTube)

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Cast: Pankaj Tripathi, Surveen Chawla, Mohd Zeeshan Ayyub, Barkha Singh, Shweta Basu Prasad, Meeta Vasisht, Asha Negi & others

Creator: Harman Wadala, Rahul Ved Prakash, Varsha Ramachandran, and Riya Poojary

Director: Rohan Sippy

Streaming On: JioHotstar

Language: Hindi

Runtime: 8 episodes of 50 minutes each, new episodes out on every Thursday

Criminal Justice: A Family Matter Review: Each & Every Move Well Designed! (Photo Credit – YouTube) Criminal Justice: A Family Matter Review: What’s It About:

“Har ek gawaah ek adhyaay hai us katha ka jo hum baanchenge judge sahab ke saamne. To judge sahab ko kahani sahi samajh aaye iske liye aavashyak hai, katha ka kram sahi ho.” With this lesson, as important as the bible for any lawyer, Pankaj Tripathi, as advocate Madhav Mishra, is ready to defend another Murder trial.

Applause Entertainment and Sameer Nair have done it again. Season 4 of Criminal Justice, now streaming on Jio Hotstar, is designed as the visual version of a page-turner. The sleep-steep storytelling is simply irresistible.

There are hot springs of ingenuity strewn across the eight episodes so that we never know when and where the investigation will end. And honestly, do we want this to end?

And even if, let’s just say for the sake of saying, the plot was not throbbing with as much scripting vibrancy as it does, there is the delightfully credible Pankaj Tripathi as our resident lawyer, Madhav Mishra.

His instinctive understanding of the compulsions behind the given crime are so grave and gamely it feels like a panic picnic. Fun while it blasts, so to speak

Pankaj’s Madhav Mishra once again holds the show together. He gets terrific support from not only his immediate costars...

Enjoyed Black, White & Gray? You Must Watch This Dark Crime Thriller On Ott (Photo Credit – Sony Liv)

When the six-part crime thriller Black, White & Gray: Love Kills was released earlier this month on SonyLIV, it received a fantastic response from critics and the streaming audience. If you have seen the series and enjoyed it (or even haven’t watched it yet), we recommend checking out an underappreciated, dark crime thriller on Ott. We are talking about the 2021 show Tabbar (a Punjabi word which means family). Read on to know more about the series and where you can stream it.

Tabbar – Plot & Cast

The eight-episode family drama thriller revolves around a retired cop, Omkar Singh (played by Pavan Malhotra), who lives with his family in Jalandhar, Punjab. When Omkar’s elder son mistakenly brings home an identical bag, the bag owner tracks him and arrives at his home to take it back.

Streaming platforms like Netflix are often accused of being the dumping ground for movies that were meant for theatrical release but then the distributors and the producers backed out because they thought it wouldn’t be a profitable venture. How can you tell if a made-for-theater movie is being dumped for streaming? Well, made-for-theater movies start with the animated production logo video and a short or long list of people that the makers want to thank; straight-to-streaming films don’t have that. Anyway, I believe that every movie should be released in theaters because you never know whether or not it’ll find an audience and rake in an unexpected amount of money. I also believe that films should get a theatrical release, even if it’s a limited one, because every filmmaker wants their film to be projected on the biggest possible screen instead of being used as background noise.

Netflix’s Indian slate for this year includes a feature film about a group of drunk young men who crash a wedding, and a series about a plane hijacking.

Toplining the new titles is Wild Wild Punjab, a Luv Films feature from Simarpreet Singh written by Harman Wadala and Sandeep Jain. According to the longline, it follows “a group of drunk boys” who “avenge a friend’s breakup by crashing his ex’s wedding and achieve closure.”

Cast includes Varun Sharma, Sunny Singh, Manjot Singh, Jassie Gill, Patralekhaa and Ishita Raj.

Other new films include Akshay Roy’s Vijay 69, a “quirky, slice-of-life film about a man who decides to compete in a triathlon” nearly the age of 70, from Try Entertainment; heist thriller Sikandar Ka Muqaddar from Neeraj Pandey; and Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba, from director Jayprad Desai, writer Kanika Dhillon and co-producers T-Series and Colour Yellow Productions.

Murder Mubarak,...

Disney+ Hotstar’s new outing in the crime drama genre in Telugu has ventured into regional cinema. The Telugu-speaking audience, along with viewers across the country, are introduced to the crime saga set amidst Naxal conflicts in the state of Andhra Pradesh. With this, we get to understand the regional politics and power plays involved in controlling the Naxals and eradicating them. Apart from Shaitan, which is set in the rural heartlands of India, we have seen many shows in the past that showcase stories from different parts of the country centered around conflicts between criminal groups. Here is a list of shows you can watch in this genre:

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Suzhal: The Vortex (2022)

Released in 2022, this Tamil-language Prime Video original investigative crime drama is set during a 10-day temple festival happening in a small hillside town in Tamil Nadu. Suzhal: The Vortex not only lets us understand the impact of sexual assault,...