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Photo: ‘Red’/Netflix One of the many joys of Netflix is the large variety of content we might not otherwise consider watching. Sometimes we want our comfort shows; other times, we want to turn away from ‘Bridgerton’ or ‘Schitt’s Creek’ and try something a little different. An Indian thriller, perhaps? The release of ‘Red’, like many movies of 2020, was delayed due to Covid-19 complications, but at last, it has had its debut. This remake of the 2019 film ‘Thadam’ tells the story of two doppelgängers being tried for the same crime by a scrambling and baffled police department. The thriller, directed by Thirumala Kishore retells this fascinating premise, held up by an incredible performance by Ram Pothineni who plays both Siddharth and Aditya. The film is no doubt entertaining and certainly has its moments, but if you’re here for a tightly woven, fascinating plot, you’re setting yourself up for disappointment.

Tollywood Although Anupama made her debut as one of the heroines in the hit film 'Premam', the actor has been focusing more on Telugu films lately. Digital NativeAnupama Parameswaran made her debut as heroine with the hit movie Premam, directed by Alphonse Putheran and there has been no looking back for this gorgeous actor since then. Her star status rose several notches up with this single movie and this gave rise to speculation that she would go on to sign up more Malayalam films. However, after the grand success of Premam, Anupama had acted in just two Malayalam films - James & Alice and Jomonte Suvisheshangal as she had shifted her focus to the Telugu film industry. She was seen playing the female lead in the Tollywood movies such as A Aa, the Telugu version of Permam going by the same title, Sathamanam Bhavati, and Vunnadhi Okate Zindagi. She also made her debut in Kollywood with the Dhanush starrer Kodi. With Anupama moving over to Tollywood and Kollywood and signing lesser Malayalam movies, fans are curious to know if she would ever get back to work in Malayalam films. In an interview to the First Post, she had said, “I don’t get a lot of gap from Telugu films (laughs). On a serious note, I did act in Jomonte Suvisheshangal after I made my debut in Premam. It’s just that whenever I got good offers from Malayalam in the past couple of years, I was almost always busy with some film or the other in Telugu. The Telugu film industry has been really kind to me and I can’t leave out such beautifully written characters that I’m being offered. At the moment, I’m shooting for 15 days in a month for A Karunakaran’s film and the rest for Trinadh Rao Nakkina’s Hello Guru Prema Kosame.” On her work plan, the actor is reported to have told, “Last year, I shot for only one film (Vunnadi Okkate Zindagi). I’m okay with not signing a film if I don’t get good roles but I don’t want to sign films just for the sake of it.”...