The Jeff & Ishan Show #9 – Ek Chatur Naar

Watch our review of Ek Chatur Naar (One Clever Woman), a 2025 Hindi-language comedy-thriller starring Divya Khosla Kumar and Neil Nitin Mukesh, written by Siddhaarth Goel, Jay Master and Deepak Nirman, directed by Umesh Shukla, streaming now on Netflix.

It’s the kind of movie I love most, a comedy with a social message about oppressed people stickin’ it to the man. It reminded me of some of my favorite films in this tradition, My Man Godfrey from the US, 1936, the 1956 Indian film Jagte Raho starring Raj Kapoor, and the 2019 Hoichoi limited streaming series Astey, Ladies (Salon de Paris) written and directed by Abhijit Chowdhury. That’s one of our favorites as well.

The Jeff & Shuvam Show #5: Khel Khel Mein

(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 OnionThis 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 & Shuvam Ishan Show

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.