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Kaali Peeli Tales review: Amazon MiniTV anthology is marred by overzealous dialoguebaazi, dated writing
FirstpostLanguage: Hindi/English What started off as the patched-together leftover scraps of big filmmakers, the anthology genre, bursting with so much energy and attention from streaming platforms, has turned into a grotesque activity. Grotesque because it doesn’t take the anthology seriously — instead of long-form, stand-alone episodes tied together by a thorough theme, like Black Mirror, like Modern Love, we do short films stitched together with a barest of an excuse. In Kaali Peeli Tales, love is in various stages of unravelling, but ultimately in the back seat of a kaali peeli — the black and yellow cab fleets that ferry anyone south of Sion, Mumbai — and with the help of a swelling score, things are sutured. Instead, we get Rais’ stamp — too many dialogues, exposing everything from doubt to clarity, a density that lays bare an insecurity to tell a long story in a short span — seeping through each film that deals with love in all its variants — homosexual, heterosexual, divorced, cheated on, patient, impatient. In ‘Loose Ends’, Chris and Karthik are two men in love — but there is a thorny past and future.
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