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Human Convoluted medical

 Human review: Convoluted medical thriller show that trips over its own excesses Shefali Shah would make for a terrific supervillain. Just not this time The prospect of watching a new Shefali Shah performance is always an exciting one. The new series Human, streaming on DisneyPlusHotstar, features the maddeningly expressive actor as Dr Gauri Nath - a celebrity surgeon renowned for her brilliance and benevolence, but with a dark side that’s hidden from most. More on the character and the actor later. This show displays what seems to be a persistent problem with so many Hindi OTT shows, particularly those made by filmmakers moving from the big screen to the small screen. In the former, the excuse of packing in a little extra seems relatively valid, considering many diverse people with different tastes are experiencing it together. However, for stuff that’s meant to be streamed in the comfort of one’s home, you’d think creators would, by now, be wise to the fact that you’re always caterin

Was it Vallé or Vallée? Slowly but surely

With Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects, Jean-Marc Vallee subtly renovated our palette of pain in the years leading up to this pandemic. It explains why, on learning of his demise, it felt like someone had stalled my sequence of healing. Where were you when you heard? I was, not for the first time, watching a 75-year-old Leonard Cohen conclude his London concert with 'Take This Waltz.' When a friend’s text displayed an article about Jean-Marc Vallée’s death, I paused the YouTube video. Cohen’s eyes were closed, in artful prayer. I frantically googled for confirmation. Maybe it was fake news. Was it Vallé or Vallée? Slowly but surely, celebrity tweets trickled in. A photograph of 58-year-old Vallée emerged on my timeline, a sobering reminder that this was the first photograph of his I had ever come across. Most of us are so used to accepting the vision of those behind the camera that we often let their names evoke an image of how they physically look. I had Vallée down for a curl