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- Netflix's Leila is a highly engaging show with memorable moments and impressive performances. Rated: 4/5 • Oct 9, 2023 A combination of taut writing, sustained technical finesse and Huma Qureshi's measured lead performance underpins Leila and enhances the acuity of its exploration of the chilling ramifications of totalitarianism.
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Jun 14, 2019 · Amidst that environment, Netflix's newest original series from India — Leila — based on journalist-turned-author Prayaag Akbar's dystopian 2017 novel of the same name, and directed in part by Deepa Mehta (Elements trilogy), is a bolt from the blue. A rather necessary one.
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Jun 16, 2019 · Netflix's latest India original Leila is the dystopian drama that has caught everyone's attention with its gritty, powerful, and brave political narrative. If Ghoul (another Netflix India original) gave us a glimpse at what future might hold for us, Leila's dystopian world set in near future (2050) is far more realistic and vivid to ignore.
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Netflix’s latest Indian original series, Leila, opens with the lynching of a Muslim man. His formerly Hindu wife is arrested by the followers of an authoritarian political leader, and put into...
Jun 14, 2019 · The six-episode first season of the new Indian Netflix Original Series Leila is just the right kind of near-future dystopian fiction.
Leila is an Indian Hindi-language dystopian drama series directed by Deepa Mehta, Shanker Raman and Pawan Kumar. [1] Based on the 2017 eponymous novel by Prayaag Akbar, Leila follows the story of Shalini, who tries to find her missing daughter in a totalitarian regime in the near future. [2]
Jun 14, 2019 · Based on Prayaag Akbar’s harrowing novel Leila, the new Netflix series, which has begun streaming Friday, serves up a chilling portrait of dystopia which is at once compelling and repelling. The series makes some sweeping departures from the book.
Jun 14, 2019 · Based on the eponymous novel by Prayaag Akbar, Leila is a dystopian drama series helmed by three directors: Deepa Mehta, Shanker Raman, Pawan Kumar. At its core, Leila is a story of a mother’s search for her missing daughter.
