The Jeff & Ishan Show #8 Halloween Edition – Virupaksha

We had a blast making our Halloween edition reviewing Indian horror film Virupaksha (Formless Eyes), a 2023 Telugu-language film starring Sai Dharam Tej, Samyuktha and Harsh Roshan, written by Bandreddi Sukumar and directed by Karthik Dandu, streaming now on Netflix. We hope you have as much fun watching it as we had making it. Hello India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and the USA!

Surya returns to his ancestral village for a brief visit.   Everything’s going great until somehow a curse on the village is activated and people start dying by suicide.  Surya starts investigating because he wants to save the village by solving who placed the curse, why they did it, and what he can do to stop it before it’s too late . . . I love that Surya’s two main allies in fighting evil are a man of medicine and a sadhu, so he’s got science and spirituality on his side. . . Harsh Roshan might be one of my favorite Indian actors.

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The Jeff & Ishan Show #5 – COURT: State vs. A Nobody

Watch our full review of COURT: State vs. A Nobody, a 2025 Telugu-language courtroom drama about a boy, a girl, and a dastardly uncle, streaming now on Netflix.

Priyadarshi Pulikonda as the lawyer was amazing. It’s a David and Goliath kind of story. And I love the message of the film, which was to find your allies and fight for justice…The film doesn’t criticize the POCSO Act. It’s critical of the court system, which very much favors the wealthy. And that’s not just true in India…It was realistic. Its structure wasn’t typical but it didn’t drag on.