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Review of Netflix’s Leila: The dystopia that is hardly utopian

Take the super hit, multiple-Emmy-winning The Handmaid’s Tale; throw in a bit of the Hunger Games and Divergent series; add a touch of the whimsical movie, 1984;mix in Nazism’s obsession with purity of race; blend in massive doses of alleged right-wing religious fanaticism (the favourite whipping boy of supposedly-evolved content creators in India, guaranteed to get instantaneous attention from the so-called intelligentsias of the country); and what do you get? A supremely scrambled web series called Leila, that’s what. Touted as the first truly dystopian Indian Original | Click Here...