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Aishani Biswas

Aishani Biswas

Outlook

7Reviews
4.7Avg from 7 scored
1Publication

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One Night Only

One Night Only

2026 · Outlook

Will Gluck uses it primarily as a playground for a glossy, feel-good romance, and the result is funny enough to keep things moving even when the story itself starts to fall apart.

4.0
TRM 5.3
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Babita Singh Reporting

Babita Singh Reporting

2026 · Outlook

The first thing that strikes you about Babita Singh Reporting is how familiar its world feels. Baby Singh (Nimisha Sajayan) is a newly posted police officer, but at home she is still expected to be the accommodating wife who takes care of everyone else.

4.0
TRM 6.0
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Haiwaan

Haiwaan

2026 · Outlook

Haiwaan doesn't tell the same story, but it repeatedly brushes against a similar moral question through Boman Irani's judge. The difference is that Priyadarshan's film rarely lets this potentially interesting conflict develop with the clarity Premchand's story achieves in a few pages.

2.0
TRM 5.3
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Assi

Assi

2026 · Outlook

Directed by Anubhav Sinha and co-written by him along with Gaurav Solanki, Assi is positioned as an investigative courtroom drama rooted in the reality of sexual assault cases in India. But once the shock settles, the question becomes whether the storytelling sustains that force.

5.0
TRM 6.5
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Baby Do Die Do

Baby Do Die Do

2026 · Outlook · Jul 2026

There are times when Bollywood plays it so safe that every thriller begins to resemble the last. Then a film like Baby Do Die Do comes along and reminds you that there are still filmmakers willing to take a gamble.

7.0
TRM 6.1
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Welcome to the Jungle

Welcome to the Jungle

2026 · Outlook · Jun 2026

There was a time when Bollywood comedies didn't worry about making sense. They worried about making audiences laugh. Logic rarely mattered, characters shouted more than they spoke and every misunderstanding somehow became funnier than the last.

4.0
TRM 5.5
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Main Vaapas Aaunga

Main Vaapas Aaunga

2026 · Outlook · Jun 2026

There are some wounds that history records in textbooks and others that continue to live inside families for generations. The Partition of India is one such wound. Long after the maps were redrawn and new borders were established, millions were left carrying memories of homes they could never return to, people they would never see again and lives that were abruptly interrupted.

7.0
TRM 6.7
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