TLI Staff
New Delhi: Netflix’s The White Tiger, starring Adarsh Gourav, Priyanka Chopra, Rajkummar Rao has been adapted well from the award-winning Aravind Adiga novel and has garnered positive reviews from international media. Fate: The Winx Saga by the makers of The Vampire Diaries has all the ingredients that form the diet of supernatural lovers. While fans are in love with the series, critics have panned it. Metro Park 2 starring Ranbir Shorey, Purbi Joshi, Pitobash, Omi Vaidya will be out on Jan 29.
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The White Tiger gets thumbs up from international media
“The White Tiger revolves around Balram Halwai as he narrates his dark, humorous and epic tale of his rise from the humble rural background to a successful entrepreneur.
Cunning and ambitious, he jockeys his way into becoming a driver for Ashok (Rajkummar Rao) and Pinky (Priyanka Chopra-Jonas), who have just returned from America.
Society has trained Balram to be one thing — a servant — so he makes himself indispensable to his rich masters. But after a night of betrayal, he realizes the corrupt lengths they will go to trap him and save themselves. On the verge of losing everything, Balram rebels against a rigged and unequal system to rise up and become a new kind of master.”
Adarsh Gourav portrays Balram Halwai to the perfection and ably shoulders the film even in the presence of well-established stars like Priyanka Chopra and Rajkummar Rao.
Directed by Ramesh Bahrani, the film has been praised by international media for doing justice to Aravind Adiga’s novel on which it is based.
Fate: The Winx Saga another gripping supernatural take from makers of The Vampire Diairies
Fairies attend a magical boarding school in the Otherworld, where they must learn to master their magical powers while navigating love, rivalries and the monsters that threaten their
very existence.
Netflix’s latest teen fantasy Fate: The Winx Saga has been getting positive reactions from fans ever since its release on Jan 22. From the producer of Vampire Diaries Brian Young this one also has a gripping plot, exciting twists and turns, and basically all the ingredients that form the diet of supernatural lovers.
The 6-episode show revolves around Bloom (Abigail Cowen), a fairy who joins a magical boarding school in the Otherworld called Alfea. She is a fire fairy and unlike her mates, she has only recently discovered her powers after her angers sets her house aflame and seriously injures her mother. The show would explore her journey of exploring her powers to the full potential and also has other intriguing characters like Sky who gets attracted to Bloom in the first meeting, Stella, Riv, Aisha, Musa and Terra.
The series stars Abigail Cowen, Hannah van der Westhuysen, Precious Mustapha, Eliot Salt, Elisha Applebaum, Danny Griffin, Sadie Soverall, Freddie Thorp among others.
Metro Park Season 2 to release on January 29
Eros Now’s Comedy-drama, Metro Park 2 starring Ranbir Shorey, Purbi Joshi, Pitobash, Omi Vaidya, Vega Tamotia, Sarita Joshi, Milind Soman, Gopal Dutt will start streaming on January 29. A hilarious sitcom about a typical Indian family settled abroad, it is helmed by Abi Varghese and Ajayan Venugopalan, and written by Ajayan Venugopalan.
The show revolves around the eccentricities and quirks of a desi Indian Gujarati family settled in New Jersey, USA.
Helllo Jee to start streaming on February 1, Gandi Baat’s 2 episodes out
ALTBalaji’s Helllo Jee a quirky take on women achieving independence on their own terms is directed by Shahnawaz Sabir Khan and features Nyra Banerjee, Mrinalini Tyagi, Akshaya Shetty, Kalyani Chaitanya, Dipali Sharma, Nitin Rao, Rahul Verma, Ansh Bagri, and Dheerendra K. Gautam. The series is full of humour, chaos, a story of ‘Womance’, and smart dialogues delivered flawlessly by the actors.
The character ‘Angelina’ who is the protagonist is a driven young woman with big dreams and a sordid past. The rest of the people involved are also from similar backgrounds who want to make something of themselves and join hands to turn their dreams into reality.
The two episodes of ALTBalaji series Gandii Baat season 6 are out. Apart from the erotic content the series is known for, this season will have elements of murder mystery. It features actors like Vikram Singh, Zoya Khan, Mahima Gupta, Keval Dasani, Alisha Khan, Deepak Gupta, to name a few.
Ravi Dubey gets a whopping amount for Jamai 2.0 Season 2
Ravi Dubey whose popular daily soap Jamai Raja got a digital avatar in the form of Jamai 2.0 is making a comeback with the series’ second season. As per industry reports, the accomplished actor was offered an amount close to Rs 2.5 crore for his part in Jamai 2.0 Season 2.
In the first season he starred opposite Nia Sharma, the dusky beauty who was also part of Zee TV’s Jamai Raja as Roshni.
Netflix announces its first Telugu original Pitta Kathalu
Netflix is coming up with its first Telugu original film, Pitta Kathalu. The four-part anthology film is directed by four of the finest stalwarts of Telugu cinema – Tharun Bhascker, B.V. Nandini Reddy, Nag Ashwin and Sankalp Reddy. Pitta Kathalu, which means short stories in Telugu, tells the stories of four distinctly bold women. Bringing these characters to life are Eesha Rebba, Lakshmi Manchu, Amala Paul and Shruti Haasan in lead roles. Pitta Kathalu also stars Ashima Narwal, Jagapathi Babu, Satya Dev, Saanve Megghana, Sanjith Hegde among many other well-known names.
Produced by Ronnie Screwvala’s RSVP Movies and Ashi Dua Sara’s Flying Unicorn Entertainment, Pitta Kathalu will premiere exclusively on 19th February on Netflix across 190 countries.