It's not uncommon to hear "Mumbai is a city, Bombay is an emotion," indeed high on emotions and drama, people of Bombay have a lot of diverse sentiments, some heartwarming others gut-wrenching. City of dreams explores the city beyond the glamour that lures millions in every year, while the city isn't fair to everyone it, everyone isn't fair to the city either.

Drunk with power, Ashish Rao Gaikwad (Siddharth Chandekar), is driven solely by self-interest. He is eager to emerge as the new face of the party after his father's attempted assassination but his sister Poornima Rao Gaikwad (Priya Bapat), actually becomes the one to face serious responsibility. The next character of interest is a conscientious cop whose resolute goodwill to uproot everything unjust in the city has gotten him only transfers to different branches in the past. Now he is on to decoding the mystery of the minister's attempted assassination but wait, there's more, the show also houses fairly interesting subplots of a salesman tired of the job and a sex worker whose wisdom and free spirit surpasses the walls of her profession.

'City of dreams' is a gripping enough tale of many lives that seem unrelated but tied together by the unforgiving city that they thrive in.

Finally something more realistic amongst the sea of euphoria and happily ever after tales, Love on the rocks' unbiased approach to portraying relationships is impactful. It's a short web series, and each episode comes with a different theme. From finding love in the most unexpected places to a pretend-arrange-marriage, the show does have unique ideas, unlike the mawkish romance tales.

At the heart of each episode is fierce writing and an engaging progression of narrative. Dialogues are crisp and in sync with the tone of story lines. Performances are equally convincing and the direction and production teams' imaginative thinking make sure of impressive 7-10 minutes of screenplay.

It's a unique format with after tales of breakups, cheating partners or making connections with strangers. The show is a worthy watch and can be easily recommended.

A second-hand attempt at copying content of similar formats, this series is far from entertaining. Short sketches based on quirky parent-kid interactions, some awkward some thought-provoking and other simply hysterical have been a popular theme for many channels to base their content on. From TSP's awkward conversations to Yfilms' Papu and papa, Being human's 'Papa kehte hain' fades quickly in their bright shine.

The show falls short in writing and performance. With some of the most asinine logic you'll come across that can't be even chalked off to poetic liberty or humor, this show makes for a disappointing experience. The haste and thoughtlessness that went into the making of the episodes becomes apparent in the first few minutes, making the remaining minutes unbearable.

It would be safe to bet against this show when so much superior content is already available.

Basing someone's worth on their familiarity with a hip vernacular or rejecting someone based on their inability to communicate using "cool" foreign reference is a scary prospect but not an uncommon one. Workplace biases have existed since forever and have forced many into working beneath their potential. Thikistan addresses these biases and also hits hard on so much that's wrong with currently prevailing toxic work culture.

The show opens with Hema (Shravan Reddy) composing a short ballad about quitting his job in the automobile industry to pursue his passion as a writer in a famous marketing agency. Parallelly, Amit (Naveen Kasturia) a Hindi writer from a small town with no resources to sustain himself has his sleep interrupted by cops while laying on a public bench. Both of them start their job as interns, but Hema soon garners astronomical rise in his career, while Amit is stuck at a lower position despite his innate talent and dedicated work.

Storylines are engrossing and follow the lives of the protagonist engagingly, always leaving the viewer wondering, what's about to happen next? Performances are strong, convincing and Navin Kasturia brings his A-game to portray a complex character who has been prejudiced against and pushed around.

The show is a highly recommended powerful watch with a thought-provoking subtext.

Sisterhood tales are extremely short videos about women backing up other women. In a male-dominated society, it's paramount for girls to look out and care for their kind. Out of many possible scenarios, Sisterhood tales chose to make videos about the most unmoving ones.

Videos are no doubt cool, crisp and intense with some compelling writing and performances, but fail to make a point of any sort. In the first video, a girl in a club saves another girl near the bar from getting drugged by a predator. That made sense and was quite convincing as well but the subsequent episodes were ambiguous with a muffled up message.

The show can be credited to portraying a wide gamut of emotions, although all of those aren't portrayed with consistent conviction. Episodes are only a few minutes long, I don't see why should anyone refrain from watching, just don't expect wonders.

Compassionate vampires, mysterious disappearances and cursed soils, Red Ruby cramps in a lot of plot twists and revelations in a short series with an average episode no longer than 15 minutes. Unfortunately, neither are all the plot twists palatable nor jaw-dropping. It's easy to judge from an opening couple of minutes that the target audience for the series are young adults which Brat aims for anyway. Cool lingo and typical teen problems is what the show opens with before turning into a supernatural thriller.

A powerful local industrialist decided to start drilling land in his city with a lot of oil potential but uses environmentally disastrous measures to extract it. In response, a high school student Amber (Noa Drake) protests against drilling dragging her friend Theo (Michael Campion) into it who has been specifically told by his mother to steer clear of the land due to the land's horrid history. Protests and the drilling lead to unpleasant discoveries about the land's past leaving the whole town susceptible to dangerous vampires. The plot is a mouthful, but that's the only factor making it gripping. Writing lacks any clever, serious effort and performances are quite average too.

It's a weak show with glaring plotholes but makes up for good time killing drama. Show can be recommended as a lazy watch especially when without anything better at hand.

Don't, and I repeat, don't fall for the seemingly enticing trailer with a clever theme of a business trying to fulfill impossible wishes. The show delivers nothing of the sort and comes off as rather an unpalatable melange of off beat mess. This Arre original is boring, lacks structure and follows a chaotic plotline.

The show starts with Dev Awasthi (Shivankit Singh Parihar) being interviewed for his wildly successful start-up 'Tathaastu,' where they take "your wish is my command" attitude to the next level and gets seemingly impossible requests sorted in no time. His team includes a lot of wacky characters, none of which are interesting enough or well developed. With conspicuously choppy writing and pale dialogues, the show fails to hold attention even for a couple of minutes. The pace is slow and direction could use a lot of work. Their first case is Taimur's missing potty training chair, and nothing could have been more mind-numbing than that. Everything in the show is forcefully tied and distastefully presented.

I wouldn't recommend this show to any with a sense of humor for witty and ingenious ideas. Steer clear of this half baked attempt.

It might not score high on plot complexities or mind-bending twists, but it rates off the charts when judged for gory and brutality. With some of the darkest and uncensored criminal portrayals, you can't deny the need of mental endurance to go through even one episode.

Abhay, a committed cop is known to go above and beyond the duty to serve justice. His past encounters have landed him in trouble for serving justice his own way. His performance of a resolute cop is convincing and his good looks sure help his case. Supporting actors, however are a mixed bag some convincing and others weak. Writing and direction manage to establish a vicious and grave ethos, but the cases aren't thrilling and deliver way less than they promise.

A subplot of the murder of Abhay's wife and his paranoia towards his son's safety does offer some help in drawing the viewer back for the next episode. It's a mediocre production with a highly graphic portrayal of inhumanity.

It would be unfair to call the show bad or repulsive, but calling is good wouldn't be true either. Although the title is completely irrelevant to the storyline, thankfully the story and performances complement each other well.

Bombay is a story about the lives of 4 people. Rahul (Mohit Digambar), a successful but lonely IT engineer. His friend and roommate Sudeep (Saad Chaudhary), a struggling director. Shruti (Vidhi Chitalia), a top-level employee at an IT firm but bad at relationships when it comes to her personal life and her roommate Neena (Kshitija Saxena), a newbie to the big city. Both the pairs have moved into opposite flats in an apartment building. In the first look, everything seems pretty innocuous, but here's the surprise, Rahul and Shruti are in a relationship and so are Sudeep and Neena. Apartment owners' reluctance to rent flats to unmarried couples, prompt them into devising this plan of renting flats nearby. The series narrates their experiences and struggles so far, leading them into their current arrangement.

Besides choppy writing and mediocre production design, performances aren't all bad but there's nothing that stands out either. My final thoughts and initial thoughts about the show, however, remain consistently meh. This can be included in a watchlist but should be put at the extreme bottom.

'Hey Prabhu!' does precisely curates certain some shiny elements just to attract young crowd, but it is powered by impressive writing at the heart. It's a palatable blend of "cool" twitter-ing superficiality and a meaningful plot and characters.

Tarun Prabhu (Rajat Barmecha), an average Joe with a passion for writing just got hired as an intern for a reputed media company 'croissant', solely because of an ace up his sleeve, the fact that he is a social media influencer with over a hundred thousand followers makes him an indispensable entity for his technologically backward employer, Mita (Achint Kaur). Mita is a conscientious editor, a perfectionist and a strong proponent of the classics. She feels her work ethics to be too pure to acknowledge a charade like Instagram or twitter flooding with amateur content. Mita is an interesting study and a multidimensional character like most well-developed characters in the show. Tarun grapples with work and his personal life on his journey to voice himself as a serious writer.

Inarguably, the best part of the show has to be casting. The fact that Tarun is a pretty regular guy and not some steroid riddled hunk, makes for a very resonating and real experience. The show is witty, engrossing and leaves you wondering what happens next. It's a great watch with a light-hearted disposition.