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Directors: Neeraj Ghaywan, Kayoze Irani, Shashank Khaitan & Raj Mehta  Streaming on : Netflix  An anthology series with four shorts from the house of Dharmatic productions helmed by Karan Johar and company. It’s like continuing with the tradition of Lust stories, Ghost stories etc, these are like twist stories exploring unconventional human relationships with an unexpected bittersweet twist at the end.  MAJNU In an affluent family live an incompatible couple who haven’t consummated their royal marriage for over three years, the wife longs for attention & love. One fine day a young boy enters their lives & is employed as a finance manager for their business. Things get awry when both the husband & wife get hopelessly & sexually drawn towards him.  Can be termed a black comedy, it’s got these subtle comical undertones & thanks to a brilliant actor like Jaideep Ahlawat it’s thoroughly enjoyable. Armaan Rahlan exudes machismo and that’s perfect c...

Passion, romance, unconditional belonging, togetherness, love ! All these beautiful emotions and feelings were evident in yesteryear’s love affairs in Bollywood during the golden era from 50s through 80s where on screen romantic couples defied societal stereotypes and jumped into unconventional romantic liaisons in personal lives. Revisiting some iconic screen couples who dared to fall in love in real life but circumstantial road blocks prevented marriage !!  In the 50s debonair Dev Anand was every girl’s Dil ki dharkan while the singing star Suraiyya was the conventional bride material. Both fell hopelessly in love with each other, Anand even proposed marriage by offering her an engagement ring. Unfortunately the singing star’s conservative mother didn’t approve of the inter faith marriage. So much was the dominant mothers control over Suraiyya’s life that she had to throw away the ring into the sea to put an evidential end to the blooming romance. While Anand moved on and marri...