Review: The Big Day (Netflix)
Reality shows about weddings are nothing new if you consider the success of productions like Say Yes to the Dress, Say I Do, and...
Review: Drishyam 2 (Amazon Prime)
The beauty of Drishyam lay in the finality of its end. As Mohanlal's Georgekutty buried the truth (literally) and got away with the perfect...
Review: Girls Hostel (SonyLIV)
TVF's revisit of Girls Hostel makes for easy binge-watching. The show mostly works for its right balance of humour and drama, and it puts...
Indian-origin actress Simone Ashley joins Bridgerton – here’s why it matters
Even as the last episode of Netflix’s Bridgerton wrapped up, its devoted, insatiable viewers were already hitting social media to demand more. Now in...
Review: Namaste Wahala (Netflix)
We aren't in a Bollywood movie, Indian boy tells Nigerian girl in Namaste Wahala. For their sake you wish they were, their love story...
WATCH: What if ‘3 Idiots’ was actually a crime thriller?
Over the years, we've all enjoyed watching 3 Idiots as a hilarious social commentary on the Indian education system... but ever imagined the film...
Mic on? Wrong date? Indian Link Radio anchors share their on-air bloopers
Marilyn Monroe once said, "It's not true that I had nothing on, I had the radio on."
For many people across the globe, if the...
What are the most requested songs on Indian Link Radio?
Indian Link Radio has been keeping listeners grooving to good music since 2002, and of course, we've gathered a number of popular requests over...
Review: Lahore Confidential (Zee5)
Few films manage a level of absolute uniformity in the quality they peddle -- in terms of writing, direction, acting and tech-specs. Lahore Confidential...
WATCH: Bollywood fan’s musical ode to Kishore Kumar
Did you think you were the biggest Kishore Kumar fan in the world? Well, Youtube's Manoj Agrawal might argue otherwise.
In this music video titled...
Indian shows and movies to watch in February 2021
Lahore Confidential (Zee5)
Following 2020’s London Confidential, Zee5 is back with the second instalment of the spy series. This time, Richa Chadha stars as Indian...
Review: College Romance season 2 (SonyLIV)
College Romance Season 2 is pretty much be summed up by its title. It is set in a college, there's lots of romance and...
Review: Jeet Ki Zid (Zee5)
It's easy to like Jeet Ki Zid. The show talks of patriotism and valour, it celebrates will power to triumph against all odds. Importantly,...
Review: The White Tiger (Netflix)
"Don't believe for a second there's a million-rupee game show you can win to get out of it". That's Balram Halwai in The White...
Review: Tribhanga (Netflix)
The great thing about Kajol is she can light up a scene as few stars do, with her zeal to enthral. The flip side...
Tandav on Amazon Prime: REVIEW and backlash
Tandav opens with a raging kisaan andolan in Greater Noida over a government decision to turn farm land into a SEZ for urbanisation. Soon,...
‘Tom & Jerry’ movie to release in India
The much-hyped toon adventure movie Tom & Jerry is set to release theatrically in India on February 19. The childhood classic television show carried...
Review: Gullak season 2 (SonyLIV)
Ordinary stories can be special, too. Gullak 2 endorses the idea with humour, conveying middle class India's quirks and foibles with uncomplicated zest. The...
Review: Maara (Amazon Prime)
The first thing that strikes you about Maara is it is a visually striking film. That's also about the last thing that strikes you,...
Review: Kaagaz (Zee5)
The merits of Pankaj Tripathi's new film Kaagaz are dwarfed by the cliches that the film fails to resist. It is something that prevents...
Indian shows and movies to stream in January 2021
Nail Polish (Zee5)
In this courtroom drama, the buried bodies of over 30 children are discovered – who is the culprit? Arjun Rampal plays lawyer...
Review: Sandwiched Forever (SonyLIV)
Rohan Sippy's Sandwiched Forever brings back an era of sitcoms that you would think got buried somewhere beneath loud family melodrama and toxic reality...
Top 10 party songs for your New Years Eve bash
Whether you're planning a small gathering or an all-out bash this New Years, you'll probably need the right playlist to set the tone for...
Review: Coolie No. 1 (Amazon Prime Video)
The joke's on all of them really, you realise, as the muddled mess that is Coolie No. 1 plays out. Varun Dhawan tries to...
Review: AK vs AK (Netflix)
AK vs AK has to be the quirkiest film Bollywood made this year. Half the trick lies in the casting. Anil Kapoor plays Anil...
Review – Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors (Disney+ Hotstar)
Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors was billed as a courtroom thriller, but it ends up more like a bleak prison drama. The second season...
REVIEW: Unpaused (Amazon Prime)
Anthologies can be erratic -- in pace, tone and overall storytelling. When you have multiple directors calling the shots on multiple sets of actors...
‘Afghan’ cameleers: “The unsung pioneers of Australia’s inland”
Many Indigenous people today continue to have Sikh or Afghan names. This message at the end of the film The Furnace brings home the...
Divine becomes first Indian rapper on Times Square billboard
Divine, known as one of the inspiration behind Bollywood hit Gully Boy, has become the first rapper from India to be featured on a Times...
Review: The Last Color (Rating: * * and 1/2)
The Last Color seems like a ‘showcase Indian film', the sort that the festival circuit in the West easily laps up. The film highlights...
Podcasts
Ep 9: What do young Indians want from love?
Growing up in Indian culture, most of us know that love has never been as popular as marriage. Even in the movies, the main...
Ep 8: Indian links in Indigenous Australian poet Ali Cobby Eckermann’s...
To celebrate NAIDOC week 2020 (between 8-15 November) I spoke to Yakunytjatjara poet Ali Cobby Eckermann about her time in India where she taught...
Ep 7: In the case of Sushant Singh Rajput
The torrid and high-octane Sushant Singh Rajput case has been fodder for Indian people and press for the last few months. The actor’s tragic...
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Dhanya Mani on speaking out: “It felt like a moral imperative”
Trigger warning – sexual harassment
The disparity between women and men in every workplace across Australia is well understood, but less understood is the disparity...
Rowing champ Gauri Kotera
With a streak of wins behind her, 14-year-old Gauri Kotera is now among the top five rowers under 16, in the state of NSW.
The...
Raising guide dogs – at home
As the clock struck midnight this past New Year’s Eve, the Bhandari family in Sydney celebrated in a rather unique way: taking care of...