Dipankar Sarkar

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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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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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In Saba, debutant director Maksud Hossain crafts a quietly powerful film set in the teeming heart of Dhaka, Bangladesh. It follows 25-year-old Saba, a young woman who has voluntarily stepped into a role of filial duty stretched to its breaking point. What could have descended into melodrama becomes, in Hossain’s steady hands, a deeply sensitive human story as it charts the collapse of hope under the weight of circumstance.

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In Bollywood’s recent playbook, ageing superstars are paired with South Indian directors to revive screen legacies via a mass action-filled entertainer. Sometimes the formula clicks (Jawan); at other times, it falters (Sikandar). Telugu filmmaker Gopichand Malineni teaming up with Sunny Deol for Jaat fits squarely within this trend, ending up as a noisy, overstuffed spectacle where predictability replaces plot, and nostalgia gets mistaken for depth.