Leila
From Sacred Games, Scam 1992, Hello Mini to The Final Call: Web Series Adapted From Novels
The OTT platform has been buzzing with energy over the last many years!! The varied streaming giants are working on interesting and innovative concepts. A trend that has been observed and has done really well with the masses is stories told with sheer conviction!! The trend has seen many of the best-selling novels being adapted to stories on the web platforms. From Netflix to ZEE5 to Sony LIV, many streaming platforms have told stories adapted from novels. Today, IWMBuzz.com takes you through a list of such heralded web projects that have been adapted from novels. A Ma | Click Here...
Sacred Games 2 to Typewriter: 9 Netflix thrillers to binge-watch this monsoon
From mind-blowing dramas to psychological mysteries, here is a list of few thriller series that you should watch this monsoon: 1. Sacred Games 2 Season 1 of this series left the audience curious. The next season of Sacred Games will be up on 15th August and you should not m | Click Here...
Top moments from the dystopian drama Leila
However, many viewers are criticizing it equally due to its portrayal of religion in a negative way. But the intense and powerful political narrative of the realistic future makes it exceptional. They successfully maintain the thin line between Hinduism and Hindutva. Moreover, some of the strong and vigorous moments from Leila are famous throughout the internet. Huma Qureshi, Siddharth, Rahul Khanna, and other’s terrific acting is the reason behind this popularity. Summing up the education system in India. Thus, it portrays the small but important difference between learning and ge | Click Here...
Netflix’s Leila: Why you should be binge watching it this weekend
Netflix has made its way in the Indian markets quite sometime back and almost instantly, it has gone straight through the hearts of Indian young and brooding minds. Netflix has provided itself with smashing hits after hits that have made us love, cry, smile and rejoice. Netflix India has a new gift ready for us and this time it is a series called Leila and we are certain that the trailer has enthralled many already. And because it is Netflix plus the outstanding actor and performer Huma Qureshi, one really doesn’t need another reason to see this series but we still have a few reaso | Click Here...
My character in Netflix’s Leila has not been explored much as it was described on paper: Vidhi Chitalia
Netflix’s latest original series Leila directed by Deepa Mehta seems to be getting mixed reviews owing to the concept having its own political overtones. Dancer turned actress Vidhi Chitalia who plays the role of the Nanny (Sapna) to the little girl Leila feels that Leila has been a good journey for her, wherein she got to learn a lot. Says Vidhi, “Leila is my first ever break. It was really nice working with International Directors. The kind of professionalism that Deepa Mehta Mam brings to the set cannot be compared to anyone else. There was a lot to learn and explore. A | Click Here...
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...
Neha Mahajan and Seema Biswas in Netflix series Leila
Netflix original series Leila will be streaming on 14 June. The platform recently released a teaser, in which Huma Qureshi can be seen as Shalini, a mother who embarks on a quest for her daughter in a dystopian future. Based on Prayaag Akbar’s 2017 novel of the same name, Leila has been directed by Deepa Mehta, Shanker Raman and Pawan Kumar. The cast also includes Siddharth, Rahul Khanna, Sanjay Suri and Arif Zakaria. Now, we have learnt that talented actors Neha Mahajan (Simmba) and Seema Biswas (Bandit Queen) have joined the ensemble cast. We buzzed the actre | Click Here...