Amazon Prime Video's Adhura trailer launch: First half, second half “We have surfed the horror genre, and though I, personally, am a bit scared of scary content, the genre has a huge following. So, when EMMAY Entertainment approached us with a proposal for making a full-blown horror series, I thought we should venture into it.” That was Aparna Purohit, Head of India Originals Content at Amazon Prime Video, speaking at the trailer launch of Adhura, held on the 28th June, late e...

Batla House, Review: Policeman with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Distinguishing one police thriller from another is becoming an increasingly difficult task. He is part of an incident/encounter that results in deaths of alleged criminals. The officer’s marital life is disrupted due to his erratic working hours and heavy post-traumatic stress. Having had enough, the wife threatens to leave him. The incident creates controversy and he runs afoul of the powers that be. Most of his higher-...

Imagine this: You decide to adapt an Israeli prisoner of war drama for Indian television audiences, and a few weeks before you are scheduled to go on air, there are serious engagements along the country’s border! What is a tragedy for the families of the soldiers killed in action may transform into large scale interest in the serial. POW (Bandi Yuddh Ke, in Hindi, a literal translation) is a STARPLUS production, based on the Israeli hit, Hatufim (literally ‘kidnapped’), writt...