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It’s Seabiscuit meets RRR, your classic boy-in-love-with-horse-meets-freedom-fighters movie. Check out our review of Azaad, streaming now on Netflix.
One day a stablehand messes with the daughter of the zamindar, the local landowner, and is forced to run away. He runs into some rebels who are trying to take down the zamindar and the British rule…I loved the historical elements. This is not a documentary, but it touches on real life things that were happening at that time.
Our latest review is live! This month, we review the action romantic-comedy Dhoom Dhaam (meaning Fanfare), rated UA 13+, streaming now on Netflix.
With me, the comedy is the test is always, is it funny? Did I laugh? And the answer is yes. My favorite part is when they find out where Charlie is hidden . . . And there’s the scene where the groom has to fill in for a dancer at a bachelorette party. I’d never seen that in a movie before.
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(and The Jeff & Ishan Show #1!)
Shuvam’s on vacation in India this month so guest co-host Ishan and I closed out the year by reviewing the Hindi-language film Khel Khel Mein, a hilarious romantic comedy about brutal honesty in the digital age.
Streaming now on Netflix, it’s a perfect film to watch for the holidays with your 13-and-ups.
It’s like The Hangover meets Glass Onion…This group of friends all come together and decide to play a game where everyone’s phones are public . . .You can guess how everything’s going to quickly go horribly wrong, but you can’t. You couldn’t guess. That’s one thing I loved about the movie.
– The Jeff &
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Dive into our review below. Our blinky Santa hats are widely available in the US but these two are important to us because we bought them on the street in Kolkata (Park Street and New Market) during various trips when we happened to be there in December. We treat them like gold!
The Jeff & Shuvam Show is shot in Philadelphia and produced in Kolkata by award-winning film director and my fellow former Fulbrighter Abhijit Chowdhury and his media production company Concept Cube.
This month, Shuvam and I review the Hindi-language film Sector 36, a police thriller about a serial child killer streaming now on Netflix. Loosely inspired by true events surrounding the Nithari case, it led us to a much deeper conversation than in our usual reviews including discussing the RG Kar rape case, the Atlanta child killings, the French gang rape case and the politics of caste and religion.
It has a lot of layers. It talks about caste politics, religion politics, and the patriarchal side of society. Deepak Dobpriyal is known to play comedy roles but this movie has given him an opportunity to really shine. Vikrant Massey has also done something which he has never done before. So, kudos to both of these great actors . . . The film keeps the police thriller genre fresh by placing a real life social issue in the middle of it, which is that the police and the media are not interested if it’s a poor kid.
– The Jeff & Shuvam Show
Dive into our review below:
The Jeff & Shuvam Show is shot in Philadelphia and produced by award-winning film director and my fellow former Fulbrighter Abhijit Chowdhury and his Kolkata-based media production company Concept Cube.
My good friend Lisa’s show opened this week in NYC at the Heath Gallery. She’ll be there for the official opening this Saturday 4/8 from 1pm-6pm. I’ll be there visiting for part of that time. Hope to see you there.
Viola Davis famously owns one of Lisa Cain’s paintings, similar to the one above, as featured in Architectural Digest. Two of her paintings are featured in the Denzel Washington-directed A Journal for Jordan and they appear on two Netflix shows.
Listen to Lisa’s interview on WNYC’s show All of It (hers is the first segment) at https://www.wnyc.org/story/artist-lisa-cains-first-nyc-exhibition-home-opened-heath-gallery-april-1st/
I’m proud to own four of her paintings myself.
Heath Gallery presents a new show by Lisa Cain “Home”, at 24 West 120th Street, Harlem, New York, in association with Rafael Gallery.
The exhibition has been curated by Wade Bonds. The exhibit will be on view April 1- 23, 2023 with the opening artist’s reception set.
This is Lisa Cain’s first New York City exhibition. Lisa Cain, Ph.D., is a celebrated folk artist, neuroscientist, anatomy professor, and award-winning educator and administrator from Canton, Mississippi.
The exhibit will feature a stunning collection of Cain’s figurative folk art and collage, highlighting Cain’s deep connection to the small-town African-American community in which she was raised.
Cont’d at Harlem World magazine.