THE FORCE IS WITH HER
In early March, Netflix India announced its slate of over 41 titles for 2021. As with television shows, a marker of success for a web series is its renewal for subsequent seasons. On that note, two particular titles stood out. Not so much for their high profiles— is India’s first International Emmy winner and is created by Imtiaz Ali—as for their shared cultural theme. Both are long-form dramas spearheaded, was slated to drop on March 8, until Disney+Hotstar indefinitely postponed its release in a genuflection to the controversial new OTT guidelines issued by the ministry of information and broadcasting. The Netflix list also featured a supernatural series named , starring Raveena Tandon as “a harried Himachali cop on a big-ticket case”.
