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Bombay Begums: Five ambitious, working women from very different backgrounds fight to make it in the Maximum City. Director Alankrita Shrivastava says, “Bombay Begums is a story about Indian women that I hope women in India, and across the world will connect with… It’s the story of their daily hustle, the story of their dreams—sometimes buried, sometimes fulfilled.” Film Companion has a delightful interview with the women who play the Bombay Begums: Pooja Bhatt, Shahana Goswani, Amruta Subhash, Aadhya Anand and Plabita Borthakur. You can catch it on Netflix on March 8—which not coincidentally is International Women’s Day.
Coming 2 America: This is the kind of sequel that makes you think either a) Hollywood studio execs have run out of imagination or b) they are total geniuses. And the creators of this very belated follow up to an iconic movie know it. In an inside joke, Eddie Murphy bonds with Arsenio Hall over a shared disdain for sequels: “If something is good, why ruin it?” Or you could improve on it… we hope? You can watch it on Amazon Prime today. PS: If it’s any consolation, the costumes promise to be as amazing as ‘Black Panther’.
Murder Among The Mormons: Mashable describes this series as a “whiplash-inducing three-parter” on the 1985 Salt Lake City bombings. Don’t know anything about them? Don’t worry. What’s not to like about a “real-life Catch Me If You Can meets The Da Vinci Code, with fantasy action sequences inspired by Pablo Escobar and featuring the Toyota MR2?”
Bombay Rose: Director Gitanjali Rao’s film has a plot that sounds a little cliched to most of us. A dancer at an illegal nightclub plans to sell herself into marriage in Dubai for the sake of her younger sister Tara and her disabled grandfather. Bring on the glycerine tears, right? Wrong. According to rave reviews in Firstpost, The Guardian and Variety, there is way more to this gorgeously animated movie than the cliches you expect—whether of the Bollywood or Disney kind.