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How Paatal Lok, The Family Man unveil India's unexplored reel landscape

The rise of streaming video since 2016 has not only created the pan-Indian film and the domestic crossover - helping Indians discover Malayalam, Tamil, Assamese, and Bengali cinema, among others

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A very sulky superintendent of police (SP), Meghna Barua, greets inspector Hathi Ram Chowdhury and assistant commissioner of police Imran Ansari at Dimapur airport. Barua (Tillotama Shome) is miffed at having to babysit the two officers from Delhi, where Jonathan Thom, a major local political leader from Nagaland, was brutally murdered. Chowdhury (Jaideep Ahlawat) and Ansari (Ishwak Singh) have landed on the day of Thom’s (Kaguirong Gonmei) funeral. Barua, rightly, anticipates trouble.
 
Sudip Sharma’s Paatal Lok (season 2, Amazon Prime Video) is gripping—superbly written, cast, and shot. As it takes you through the twists and turns of the investigation, you
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