The Handmaid’s Tale
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...
The Emerging Trend of Book Adaptations On The Web – The Way Forward
Content producers are always on the lookout for a great story idea. Hardly anything gets their blood singing and hearts pounding than hitting upon a thrilling tale for their next big magnum opus. The show-runner’s almost Pavlovian response to a great plotline underlines the singular importance the story holds for the success of a show. This premise holds true for content creators everywhere, whether desi or videshi. Give them a scintillating storyline and entertaining plot and you’ve got them eating out of your hands. In book adaptations, content creatorshave ch | Click Here...
The Handmaid’s Tale Season 2 on SonyLIV: A deeply disturbing but infinitely inspiring telling of the rise of Offred
“Whether this is my end or my new beginning, I have no way of knowing. I have given myself over into the hands of strangers. I have no choice. It can’t be helped. And so I step up into the darkness within or else the light.” The voiceover gives expression to Offred’s thoughts as she is whisked off in the ominous black van at the end of The Handmaid’s Tale, Season 1. Fans across the world collectively exhaled the breaths they had been holding, as the riveting last episode of the first season | Click Here...