Crime - Filmy Town

Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials – web series review

A refreshing new mini series 'Seven Dials' penned by Agatha Christie is currently streaming on Netflix with three gripping episodes of approximately 52 minutes each. Agatha Christie's Seven Dials - web series review... What can one say about Agatha Christie and her mysteries, this vociferous authoress wrote 66 detective novels, 14 short stories collection besides plays, three generation of Indians grew up marvelling them. Who can forget the immaculate investigation work done by her more famous detectives, Hercule Poirot the Belgian detective and Miss Marple the aging spinster. Since the late 19th and early 20th century there have been great writers of detective fiction novels like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, famous for his character Sherlock Holmes, Raymond Chandler for his Philip Marlowe and others however Christie was the only woman and just too good at her craft and a prolific writ ....
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Taskaree: The Smuggler’s Web – review

Taskaree The Smugglers Web. Web series review

The latest eponymous OTT crime thriller series on Netflix which well describes itself, is about smuggling of gold, drugs, luxury items and expensive watches however primarily via air and more about gold or peela as it is called in the series. Gold has always allured our people. Taskaree: The Smuggler's Web review... The penchant for gold jewellery is well known, Indians have the largest domestic appetite for gold, the amount of house-held gold would embarrass even Fort Knox. Thus any import duty or taxation invites smuggling in this yellow metal. Historically too gold had been the most smuggled item apart from electronics till the 1990s however there was a lull in the interim period when the duty was reduced 2% but lately with the rates and duty going north it has come back in fashion. Taskaree: The Smuggler's Web is now streaming on NETFLIX (No. of episodes 7) It reveals how wi ....
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Wake Up Dead Man – movie review

Wake Up Dead Man is the third installment of Knives Out film series There are quite a few who like spy movies, suspense and psychological thrillers or horror flicks however everyone loves a spiced up whodunit. This murder mystery genre is eye candy for one and all, it draws you from the depths of your mind and leaves you biting your nails as the needle of suspicion keeps shifting from one character to the other. We have had some great fictional detectives like Agatha Christie's hero Hercule Poirot or the famous detective Sherlock Holmes penned by Arthur Conan Doyle. These were the detective heroes in literature from the 20th century European society who were then brought to life on celluloid in movies like Murder on Orient Express a classic Agatha that was ahead of its time, and the 2009 Sherlock Holmes movie about the villain Blackwood and his resuscitation from the dead. These ....
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Delhi Crime Season 3 – web series review

There are some great series on various OTT platforms which are binge watched thus becoming viral by word of mouth and it is then that their creators wanting to cash in on this popularity bombard you with season after season of the same series. Delhi Crime Season 3 review.... This phenomenon which was visible in English (Hollywood) serials on Prime or Netflix has now hit the Indian OTT community too, of late a few Hindi series too have had successful runs, this culminated in seasons, raking in the moolah for the makers and the OTT platforms alike. Series like Panchayat, Maharani, Family man, Mirzapur have been well liked and appreciated in their subsequent seasons on different platforms. The subscribing audience waits with a bated breath for these well made dramas and clamour for a new season of binge watching. There are three kinds of series the first one which takes the story forw ....
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Nishaanchi – movie review

Anurag Kashyap is back with a handful of his favourite actors Kumud Mishra, Monika Panwar and Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub with the young ones Aaishvary Thackeray, Vedika Pinto and Monika Panwar. Nishaanchi marks Kashyap’s return to his recognizable grind, this time contending with a new ensemble while preserving his signature blend of grit and dark humor. The film glints in places, yet certain stretches linger and slow the pace. If you can overlook the drag, the performances and Kashyap’s keen eye for detail elevate the viewing, making it a worthwhile watch. It is almost a decade and a half that Anurag had come up with Gangs of Wasseypur which too was a gangster drama. He had bound a neat narrative for Nishaanchi. In 2006, the incident of burst of bank robberies involving 3 persons. There are twins and their girlfriend. Piyush Mishra is the inspector Kamal Ajmal. A story of twin ....
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HIT 3 – movie review

If you are a fan of suspense and thriller genres, 'HIT: The Third Case' - HIT 3 is not only taut and gripping but this PAN India thriller is also tailor-made for you. The film revolves around SP Arjun Sarkaar, a top police officer of the Telangana state's Homicide Intervention Team (HIT) officer is sent to Jammu and Kashmir to investigate a series of brutal murders by serial killers. The story is expected to be made to keep viewers on the edge of their seats with its intense and unpredictable twists. The trailer and teasers of HIT 3 revealed a dark, gripping storyline that delves deep into the psychological and physical challenges faced by the protagonist. Yes. This time, Arjun Sarkaar (Nani) replaces the level-headed Krishna Dev (Adivi Sesh) as SP of the fictional Homicide Intervention Team’s Visakhapatnam unit. His brutal reputation precedes him, and while he may appear to the ....
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Black Warrant – review

The latest offering by Netflix, Black Warrant is streaming on their OTT platform, it is a seven part series with each episode of approximately 45 minutes length on an average. Black Warrant is a term used when a hanging takes place within the premises of a jail and a Warrant is issued by the magistrate to hang a certain person, it is issued a day prior to the actual hanging, naming the person or persons to be hanged and the time, it is basically an official instrument or shall we say a permission to the prison authorities issued on behalf of the court to proceed with the hanging after all mercy petitions have been rejected. Based on the true accounts mentioned in the 2019 book Black Warrant: Confessions of a Tihar Jailer by Sunil Gupta who has written the book as first person account and is also the protagonist. It is about the time when he was a fresh joinee ACP Jailer in the i ....
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The Little Things – movie review

Streaming on Amazon is The Little Things - one of the better made psychological murder mysteries, starring some formidable actors from the the current stock in Hollywood namely Denzel Washington, who needs no introduction and Rami Malek, the guy who shot to fame playing our own Freddie Mercury's character in the 2018 Queen's biopic 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. Even the antagonist is played by another well known Hollywood face, Jared Leto. The movie explores art of deduction as Deacon, known as Deke to one and all, played by Washington literally takes the newbie precocious detective Baxter under his wings, though Baxter is good but has a stiff nose, who has joined in Deke's place in the LAPD precinct he was famous in. Deke explains the small nuances of crime and murder detection which if overlooked will leave the cases unsolved and will literally be shelved in cold case files. The camarader ....
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Mrs Serial Killer – movie review

Chanced upon a little known gory murder mystery which goes by the name of Mrs Serial Killer is streaming now on Netflix and would have gone unnoticed if I was not sifting through the movies that I want to see. Released almost a year ago, Mrs Serial Killer is really less known as there was no fanfare or much hype and hoola created on its launch. It has got a few A-listers in its acting roll call namely Jacqueline Fernandez in the title role and also the protagonist is the new slasher in town and Manoj Bajpai plays her doctor husband with Mohit Raina playing a cop who is also her ex-lover, you get the love triangle drift by now isn't it? The other characters, there is nothing much to write home about they flit in ànd out throughout the movie. The thing that irritates you as the movie begins, is that the events are too sudden and in your face, disjoint and the characters behave as if ....
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Mumbai Saga – movie review

Yet another gangster movie Mumbai Saga explores the period between mid eighties and mid nineties when Mumbai's small scale businesses were run on the mercy of the local strong man who would take protection money from these small and roadside enterprises. The film had a theatrical release on 19 March 2021 and is now streaming on Prime. Mumbai Saga also explores the unholy nexus between the Police-Politician and the gangster. This was a strange period as the at one hand the polititians provided protection as well as encouraged intergang rivalry as and when it deemed fit in their scheme of things. On the other hand they also ordered the police to finish off the gang in encounters when the gangs became too hot to handle for them or they grew bigger than their own shoes. This movie is made in the same mould and style like say the 'Shootout at Wadala' or 'A Shootout at Lokhandwala' and i ....
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