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2020s Aranya Sahay’s Hindi feature film Humans in the Loop is a lyrical meditation on technology, identity and systemic bias. At its center is Nehma (Sonal Madhushankar), a tribal woman from the Oraon community who, after a failed marriage, returns to her village in Jharkhand with two children. Struggling for stability, she takes a job as a data labeler at an AI center, only to discover that the biases ingrained in her world are quietly replicated by the machines she helps train.

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With Raid 2, Raj Kumar Gupta returns with a follow-up to his Raid (2018). The film is a relatively effective and tense high-stakes battle in which an honest David takes on a political Goliath in full public view, armed only with the law and a strong moral compass. Upright Income Tax Officer Amay Patnaik (Ajay Devgn) storms a Rajasthani fort, a courageous act that earns him his 74th transfer, and as always, he takes it in stride.

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With Ha Lyngkha Bneng (The Elysian Field, Khasi, 2025), Khasi filmmaker Pradip Kurbah presents a film of quiet, unwavering grace, whose soulful and carefully crafted simplicity carries a depth of feeling that is both sincere and deeply moving. There is no attempt at grand gestures—only a calm, clear-eyed honesty. Within the fading rhythms of a dying village, the film uncovers the delicate, enduring notes of a fragile but persistent symphony.

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Sharan Venugopal’s debut feature film, in Malayalam, Narayaneente Moonnaanmakkal (Three Sons of Narayani), captures the delicate ache of familial estrangement with a quiet intensity. The drama follows three brothers — Bhaskar (Suraj Venjaramoodu), Vishwanathan (Alencier Ley Lopez) and Sethu (Joju George) — who reunite at their ancestral home as their mother lies dying. But their homecoming isn’t one of warmth.

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Debutant Karan Singh Tyagi’s Kesari Chapter 2: The Untold Story Of Jallianwala Bagh, based on the book The Case That Shook The Empire by Raghu and Pushpa Palat, explores an Indian lawyer’s challenge to the British Empire’s cover-up of the horrific Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919. While the raw material had immense potential, the outcome collapses into an overwrought exchange of patriotic rhetoric and little else.