Did Amazon Prime Video just take a leaf out of Netflix’s playbook?
Modern Love Mumbai—an Indian spin-off of the original American anthology series—has such a poor hit rate that it makes Ankahi Kahaniyan and Ajeeb Daastaans look like early Black Mirror seasons.
We discuss our favourite shorts of the six films, the bizarre choice to adapt these from the American column and not source local stories, and why established directors should stop phoning it in with these projects.
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