Bombay Begums Review: Pooja Bhatt will surprise you with her top-notch performance in this empowering show
Shahana Goswami, Amruta Subhash, Plabita Borthakur and Aadhya Anand leave an impressive mark in Alankrita Shrivastava s Netflix show. Netflix Bombay Begums
Cast: Pooja Bhatt, Shahana Goswami, Amruta Subhash, Plabita Borthakur, Aadhya Anand, Rahul Bose, Danish Husain, Vivek Gomber and Imaad Shah
Showrunner: Alankrita Shrivastava
Bombay Begums Story:
Five women across generations wrestle with desire, ethics, personal crises and vulnerabilities to own their ambition in contemporary urban India. As glass ceilings are shattered, and hearts are broken, difficult choices have to be made. And as each woman strives to find her own truth, they find in each other an unexpected understanding and the sliver of a bond.
The White Tiger Review: Adarsh Gourav roars like wildcat in this rags-to-riches tale
Director Ramin Bahrani s The White Tiger is an answer to Slumdog Millionaire in a grittier way. Netflix The White Tiger
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Where to Watch: Netflix The White Tiger Story:
The ambitious driver (Adarsh Gourav) for a rich Indian family uses his wit and cunning to escape from poverty and become an entrepreneur. Based on the bestselling novel by Aravind Adiga of the same name. The White Tiger Review:
If you think this rags-to-riches story will remind you of
Slumdog Millionaire, then Balram (Adarsh Gourav) shuts it down in the first few minutes of the film. The leading actor is also the narrator of the film and he is heard saying, Don t believe for a second there s a million-rupee game show you can win to get out of it.
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did you do anything to try to improve these broad, stark, racial disparities? and if so, what did you do? of course i did, jake. in fact if you look at the data, you ll see there was a 65% decrease in incarceration of african-americans when you go from the beginning of my term to the end. and we worked very hard on several fronts. the first is to diversify the office and to add more people of color to the ranks of prosecutors. and i did that. the second was to look at how we were handling drug court and make sure that we were doing it in a way that wasn t racist. and you can always do better. i can tell you. you learn in retrospect when you look back, things you can do better. the third thing was to up our focus on white collar crimes. things committed in the board rooms are just as bad as things committed with a crow bar if someone is trying to break in a house. so i really made a major effort on that. and then finally, i was one of the first prosecutors in the country to work wi
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