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Black Warrant is easily one of the best crime dramas to come out of Netflix India. It is the start of the year, and the streaming giant has done a good job of presenting real-life stories from behind the large walls of Tihar, one of the notorious prisons of our country. The show is based on the book by Sunil Gupta and Sunetra Choudhry. The show has several fictional and non-fictional characters that define the ambience of the infamous prison.

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Sunil Kumar Gupta

Zahan Kapoor portrays the role of the new recruit Asp Sunil Kumar Gupta. He joined Tihar as a jailer out of desperation, because he was looking for a job. The lack of jobs for an educated man like himself affected him, and without realizing the dark hole he was about to fall into, he accepted the job. It was on joining the place of work...

With a title that translates as Neighbourhood of Ill Repute, and featuring a bisexual love triangle, the 1971 film wowed festivals – before disappearing without trace. Now it’s been rediscovered – by accident

Nobody used the phrase “having a moment” back in 1971. Had they done, it could have been applied without contradiction to developments in queer cinema. It was four years after the Sexual Offences Act 1967 had partially decriminalised sex between consenting men over 21 in England and Wales, and two years after the Stonewall uprising in New York City. Queer desire was everywhere: in Sunday Bloody Sunday, Death in Venice, Pink Narcissus, the trans classic Women in Revolt, the lesbian horror Daughters of Darkness, the gay porn landmark Boys in the Sand and Rosa von Praunheim’s droll and provocative It Is Not the Homosexual Who is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives. Fassbinder, who could cough out movies in his sleep,...

Mysore, Aug 12 (Ians) Gulbarga Mystics’ opening batter Rohan Patil put on an absolute show on Thursday, scoring a sublime ton against Mysore Warriors in a rain-hit game.

Patil’s assault helped the Mystics register a comprehensive 9-wicket win. Patil, who got to his 50 off 15 balls, reached his 100 in 42 deliveries, having hit 6 sixes and 10 fours up until then. He finished unbeaten on 112.

Asked to bat first after rain delayed the toss, the Mysore Warriors got off to a flyer with the in-form openers Karun Nair and Nihal Ullal scoring at good clip. They were motoring along at 10 runs an over or so before the skipper was run-out for 18.

Nihal and Naga Bharath tried to keep the momentum going but it was the opener who fell in the process, walking back to the hut for 27 in the 9th over. Gulbarga Mystics had applied the brakes for a bit, but Pavan Deshpande came...

Popular Tollywood star and politician Nandamuri Balakrishna shares a good rapport with his Kannada counterparts Shivraj Kumar, Raghavendra Rajkumar and Puneeth Rajkumar. So, when he was in Bengaluru recently, Balayya decided to visit each of the three brothers individually to offer his condolences on the demise of their mother Parvathamma Rajkumar. Wife of late Kannada superstar Rajkumar and a popular producer, Parvathamma passed away on May 31 in a private hospital where she was undergoing treatment.

Hyderabad, Jan 22: Kannada superstar Shivraj Kumar, son of late actor Rajkumar, says that the death of legendary actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao is not only a loss to Telugu filmdom but to Indian cinema as a whole.

Nageswara Rao died here early Wednesday after battling intestinal cancer. He was 89.

"His (Nageswara Rao) death is not only a loss for Telugu industry, but it is a big loss to Indian cinema. My father and he used to be great friends. Whenever he would come to Bangalore, he would take out time to meet my father. My father did the same when he went to Hyderabad," Shivraj Kumar told Ians.

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Prabhu Dheva’s cinema is a different genre altogether – utterly unrealistic but still entertaining in its weirdness. Once again he has thrown logic and realism to the winds and come out with R…Rajkumar, a masala entertainer through and through.

A small town called Dhartipur is ruled by two warring drug mafia gangs. One day Rajkumar (Shahid Kappor) lands up there and joins the gang headed by Shivraj (Sonu Sood). He also falls in love at first sight with Chanda (Sonakshi Sinha), the niece of the other gang leader Parmar (Ashish Vidyarthi). Unfortunately for him, Shivraj falls for her too and soon the battle lines are drawn. It is either pyaar or maar for our protagonists.

R…Rajkumar has many drawbacks. It is crass, regressive in its portrayal of women, has no story to speak of, and is completely missing that little thing called logic. Yet it works because Prabhu...