Lost and Found

Welcome to OTTplay Lost and Found, one podcast that talks about critically acclaimed films and shows that are lesser-known. I'm your host Nikhil. The Netflix original series The Chair, stars Sandra Oh as Dr Ji-Yoon Kim, the new head or Chair of the English literature department at her University. She is forced with the thankless task of trimming down her department, whilst also having to deal with...

Welcome to another episode of OTTplay Lost and Found, one podcast that talks about critically acclaimed films but lesser-known. I'm your host Nikhil. The Malayalam film industry has come a long way over the decades with a wide range of films across multiple genres. More recently, the industry has witnessed a renaissance of sorts with a new wave of cinema that has captured the imagination of the pe...

Welcome to today's episode of OTTplay Lost and found, one podcast that gives you all the info about critically acclaimed films and shows, but lesser- known. I'm your host Nikhil. Debutant director Safdar Rahman’s 2018 Chippa was a tribute to his newborn daughter. The story of a ten-year-old eponymous protagonist, Chippa told the journey of an abandoned child in search of his father on his 10th bir...

Welcome to OTTplay Lost and Found , one podcast that talks about critically acclaimed films but lesser-known. I'm your host Nikhil. Yet another underrated gem from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, The Killing of a Sacred Deer delves into the inner workings of the human mind when it is compelled to make hard choices. Set in a thematic backdrop of ‘survival of the fittest’, the film follows a cardi...

Welcome to OTTplay Lost and Found , one podcast that talks about critically acclaimed films but lesser-known. I'm your host Nikhil, stay locked. Films that depict the lives of movie stars and the crazed fans who worship them, have often delved into the lives of screen legends divorced from the gaze of stardom. From Guddi to Mast, the turning point in many of these films revolves around that crucia...

Welcome to OTTplay Lost and Found , one podcast that gives you all the info on  lesser-known but critically acclaimed films. I'm your host Nikhil. Today's episode is all about The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. This Mike Newell directorial is set in the idyllic English town of Guernsey, in the final years of World War II and the consequent few years. During the German occupation of...

Welcome to OTTplay Lost and Found, one podcast that gives you insights into critically acclaimed films but lesser-known. I'm your host Nikhil. There have been many films that have depicted the convivial Chawl culture of Mumbai. But there are few that have managed to capture the true spirit of those residing in those middle-income  housing societies in India’s most populous metropolis. It’s an uber...

The popularity of true-crime TV shows has risen in recent years, coinciding with the surge in OTT and streaming platforms across the globe. More often than not true-crime series are well received and are widely popular. However, a few go unnoticed despite being critically acclaimed, and one such series is the Netflix Original TV show, Unbelievable. That's the OTTplay Lost and Found for today. The...

Woody Allen once famously said, “I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” And how one interprets and processes the end of one’s life can vary and also trigger a range of emotions – from self-pity to reflection. Even Rajesh Khanna’s eponymous character in Anand exploded with fundas on life on being diagnosed with an incurable condition. “Babumoshai, zindagi badi honi c...

Rituparno Ghosh managed to churn out yet another unassuming gem with the turn of the century. Nestled in the quietude of suburban life, today’s Lost and Found is Bariwali (which literally translates to The Landlady). With this film, Kirron Kher imbued the nuances of Banalata, a naïve middle-aged woman, grappling through life in her sprawling-yet-crumbling residence. The Gods of Fate are less than...

Every once in a while, we come across a movie that can hardly be slotted. Breaking the conventional mould of cinema, these gems redefine the landscape of storytelling. Onur Tuke l’s 2016 dark comedy-drama Catfight is one such film. And it’s our Lost and Found for today. The title of the film may paint a mental image of two squabbling women, possibly taking off their earrings and accessories before...

Action comedies featuring cops have ranged from slapstick blockbusters such as Leslie Nielsen’s The Naked Gun to cookie-cutter sitcoms such as Brooklyn Nine-Nine. But when this genre is interpreted in the UK, it packs a dash of cheeky one-liners, a smudge of irreverent humour and often, even presented with a mystery about a certain unsolved crime.  Today’s Lost and Found is Vexed, the 2010 British...

There are shows that teleport one to where they are set in, to such an immersive degree that one becomes familiar with the characteristic life of that place.  And today’s Lost and Found ushers us to the idyllic, sleepy Cornish fishing village of Port Isaac in Northern Cornwall which is depicted as Portwenn (pronounced ‘Port when’) on screen. Yes, you guessed it right, we’re talking about Doc Marti...

Films about cities tend to take a deep dive into the cultural and political fabric that drives its residents.  But today’s Lost and Found, which is Ruchika Oberoi’s Island City, takes a satirical stab at the isolated, marginalized yet hopeful lives that many lead in India’s Maximum City.  This one packs three connected stories that allude to the fears, regrets, dreams and joys that make Mumbaikars...

Arriving three years after the brilliant horror-comedy Makdee, The Blue Umbrella (2015) was Vishal Bhardwaj’s sophomore children movie offering.   As far as tone is concerned, the two movies could not have been more different. While Makdee was eerily discomfiting, The Blue Umbrella pulsates with a throbbing heart. Based on Ruskin Bond’s story of the same name, The Blue Umbrella is a children’s fil...

Writer-director Vasan Bala is a bonafide cinephile, and Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota, his second feature directorial, is a testament to his love for movies. Starring Abhimanyu Dassani in his debut role, Radhika Madan and Gulshan Devaiah, Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota is a vivid, inventive film peppered with pop culture and comic book references. At the centre of this story is Abhimanyu’s Surya, who is born wit...

Indian superhero movies and shows have largely bordered on the bizarre. From the maroon-suited Shaktimaan to the blue-eyed android G One in Ra. One to the friendly and cocky Flying Jatt, our desi superheroes have spoofed the genre time and again. But in the last decade, if there’s a film that really packed a punch and gave us a hero we could look up to and count on, it has to be the one in Bhavesh...

Mike Flanagan’s 2016 psychological thriller is a masterclass in tension-building. A gripping scare-a-thon about a deaf writer whose suburban house gets attacked by a notorious serial killer, Hush is a slow-burner that gradually reaches a narrative crescendo. Flanagan is clearly in his element with this one -- from screenplay to the seamless inclusion of horrific moments -- Hush is an all-out nail-...

Rituparno Ghosh’s 2008 travel drama Khela makes for a perfect companion on a chilly winter afternoon. The film’s heartwarming story revolves around the unexpected bond forged between an eccentric filmmaker Raja (played by Prosenjit Chatterjee) and a precocious child, who’s cast as the lead in the filmmaker’s forthcoming film. Despite his wife’s long-standing desire to have a child, Raja is firmly...

Police procedurals are engineered to draw one into the investigation in question. To an extent, that one is encouraged and prodded to build one’s own theories about how the events surrounding a certain crime would’ve gone down. But there are also shows that leave you terrified yet hopeful, even while an alarming amount of evidence seems to be pointing at the obvious.  Today’s Lost and Found is the...

Coming-of-age Indian movies about childhood have mostly focused on issues that adults believe children deal with. But there have also been sensitive films such as Rockford and Taare Zameen Par that closely followed adolescent life, with all its challenges and joys. And today’s Lost and Found, which is Sanjivan Lal’s Bubble Gum, is surely a lesser-known gem that makes for a telling portrait of chil...

There are films that touch a necessary nerve and there are those that furnish reality so elaborately that we find it too overwhelming to process. Today’s Lost and Found, Rakhee Sandilya’s Ribbon is one such film. Starring India’s first web series star Sumeet Vyas (of Permanent Roommates fame) and Kalki Koechlin in the lead, Ribbon shows the mirror to the debilitating world we live in today. From b...

Thriller-comedies have forever managed varying success in Indian cinema. But Abhinay Deo’s Blackmail, our Lost and Found for the day, surely serves a refreshing twist to the genre. Starring Irrfan Khan, Kirti Kulhari, Arunoday Singh and Divya Dutta, this 2018 film packs a hilarious series of misadventures, a dash of extramarital affairs and a whole lot of blackmail.  The film’s central plot revolv...

Strangers accidentally meeting and getting drawn to each other despite belonging to evidently different worlds has forever been a tried-and-tested mould in movies. But then there are also those that furnish the same premise but filter it through such an authentic light that it makes for compelling cinema. And Ritesh Batra’s Photograph, which is our Lost and Found for today, is one such film. The f...

Festival films are often regarded to be of a certain type. A piece of art for art’s sake that most find inaccessible, if not unpalatable. But there have been Indian films in recent decades that have broken the mould to find universal audience acceptance and receive due recognition at once. Gurvinder Singh’s National Award-winner Chauthi Koot is one such film. The 2016 Punjabi thriller is set in th...