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Ravi Chhabriya’s “Detective Sherdil” (2025) is a straight-up disaster from the get-go. Nothing is redeeming about it. Be it a spectacularly demented plot, a sleuth who just miraculously unlocks a mystery, the embarrassingly tawdry music and editing compete to rattle your patience and nerves. Among an ensemble stacked with respectable, fine actors like Ratna Pathak Shah, Boman Irani, you wonder how they could even be compelled to go through the grind of this blatantly silly film. Diljit Dosanjh gets a flashy introduction, overselling his sleuth’s skills, which is an instant recipe for disaster.

Detective Sherdil (2025) Plot Summary & Movie Synopsis:

Detective Sherdil (Diljit Dosanjh) is a sleuth of great self-possession. When the film opens, he compares himself to the greats, like Sherlock Holmes and Byomkesh, and adds that he does something that neither had ever done. He makes reels after cracking a case. The film has this jocular spirit, but the humour is so juvenile,...

Directed by Ravi Chhabriya, Detective Sherdil follows the template of a classic whodunit, where the protagonist solves a murder mystery and finds out who the killer was. Though the writers did a decent job with the mystery bit of the story, I felt that the characters weren’t vibrant or intriguing enough to attract the attention of the audience. Now, be it a lighthearted film like Murder on the Orient Express or a serious one like the 1969 Rajesh Khanna starrer, Ittefaq, what these whodunits have in common is that they feature interesting characters that keep you hooked and entertained. I felt that Natasha’s character could have been written in a much better manner, and her dynamic with Sherdil could have been the highlight of the film. But since those scenes were not fleshed out properly and the writing lacked punch, it wasn’t able to leave much of an impact.

On paper, the idea of playing the busybody housewife Rajeshwari in Toh Baat Pakki, who seems to have only one mission in life, namely to see her sister (newcomer Yuvika) married off, must have sounded like an exciting new character to explore for the brilliant actress. Alas, Tabu had not bargained for the mundane situations and the pedestrian dialogues that her character is put into.

Toh Baat Pakki is one of those tragic comedies that don’t elicit a hint of humour. If Basu Chatterjee lost the plot, he would probably have turned up with this listless ode to the middle-of-the-road movies of the 1970s.

This middle-of-the-roader gets stranded in the middle of nowhere. The plot is intrinsically bereft of ingenuity. The direction is plodding and strained most of the way.

Tabu plays the interesting-on-paper dreadful-in-execution housewife as part-schemer, part-dreamer but entirely annoying and avoidable. Unlike the shrew that Sridevi...

This is a must watch movie for all Indians. The narrative is about the abrogation of Article 370 with a brief on what Article 370 is, what it meant, why it remained effective for such a long time and finally the actions taken to abrogate the special status. The story is narrated from the perspective of two fictitious characters who lead the thought of removing the special status of J&k. The reasons narrated through a few episodic sub plots / scenes are the ones we have seen on the national news channels and can relate to the same.

Intelligence agent Zooni Haksar (Yami Gautam Dhar), stationed in Kashmir eliminates a militant named Burhan Wani but gets in trouble for not following the rules. She is transferred to Delhi, where she is engaged in tasks of lesser interest to her. She makes up her mind to give up the forces and take a job.

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Star Cast: Yami Gautam, Priyamani, Arun Govil and Vaibhav Tatwawadi

Director: Aditya Suhas Jambhale

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What’s Good: The make-up department has done an excellent job

What’s Bad: The makers’ confusion about whether it’s fiction or based on real incidents!

Loo Break: It’s a long movie; you can take as many, especially in the first half

Watch or Not?: If you want to question the motives and ignorance, probably or don’t

Language: Hindi

Available On: Theatrical release

Runtime: 160 Minutes

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The story starts in 2016 with the encounter of Burhan Wani, which caused more unrest in Kashmir—followed by the Pulwama attack and a few other circumstances that make Zooni Haksar (Yami Gautam), Rajeshwari Swaminathan, the Pmo secretary (Priyamani) and the government question the Article 370 that gives a special provision and a unique status to Kashmir.

New Delhi, Aug 24 (Ians) Rajeshwari Kumari became the second-ever Indian shooter to win an Olympic quota place in the Women’s Trap event after she finished fifth in the International Shooting Sport Federation (Issf) World Championship (All Events) at Baku, Azerbaijan on Thursday.

Shooting in the Azerbaijan capital, after setting a national record score of 120 (beating her own record of 118) in the qualification round, India No.1 Rajeshwari finished with 19 hits from the first 30-targets of the six-woman 50-shot final to snare India’s seventh Paris 2024 quota place in Shooting.

Chinese Taipei’s Lin Yi Chun won gold with 40 hits to 39 of Italy’s Jessica Rossi, the 2012 London Olympic Games winner and three-time world champion, the National Rifle Association of India (Nrai) informed in a release on Thursday.

“I am feeling great. It’s unbelievable. It’s finally done. It’s done for the country. I mean I wish I could...

New Delhi, Aug 23 (Ians) Rajeshwari Kumari shot the day’s second-best score of 73, on day one of the Women’s Trap shooting qualifiers at the International Shooting Sport Federation (Issf) World Championship (All Events) in Baku, Azerbaijan.

As a result, she ended the day favourably placed fourth. London Olympics champion Jessica Rossi of Italy was leading the 75-strong field with a perfect score of 75.

Rajeshwari and the others will come back on Thursday to shoot two more rounds of qualification before the top six make the finals, which follow on the same day.

Rajeshwari missed just two targets on the day of this Olympic event, with rounds of 24, 25 and 24 respectively.

Compatriots Manisha Keer and Preeti Rajak shot scores of 68 and 67 to end the day in 24th and 41st spots, respectively. The trio was also in bronze medal position in the team event with a combined effort of 208 thus far. Italy...

New Delhi, June 16 (Ians) Olympian Kynan Chenai and Paris 2024 quota-winner Bhowneesh Mendiratta are in joint lead in the Men’s Trap, while Rajeshwari Kumari is ahead in the Women’s Trap shooting competition at the 4th National Selection Trials (Shotgun), currently underway at M.P. State Shooting Academy range in Bhopal, on Friday.

Kynan and Bhowneesh shot perfect scores of 50 each after two rounds of qualification while Rajeshwari had two misses to be on top of the women’s qualification field with 48.

The 55-strong men’s Trap field is currently looking more competitive with just two points separating the top eight shooters and three separating the leaders from 15th-placed Udaiveer Singh Jaijee. Former world champion Manavjit Singh Sandhu is one of the two Shooters trailing the leaders on 49, the National Rifle Association of India (Nrai) informed in a release here on Friday.

In the 32-strong women’s field, the seasoned...