Sita, the first-ever Indian under lockdown! India’s internet generation is celebrating the reruns of Ramayan with memes and hashtags.

Ramayana isn’t the only old gem in Doordarshan’s archives. Here’s our recommendation of 12 Doordarshan serials we’d love to watch again.

Adam Driver is excellent in The Report, a film about a Senate investigation into a post-9/11 CIA detention programme. It’s a movie that you need to pay attention to and if you are binge-watching while in self-isolation, we recommend it.

Trust the internet to chance upon a freaky fact during home quarantine. The 2010 Disney animation film Tangled has a crazy detail that might have prefigured the Covid-19 pandemic.

Better Call Saul is incredibly ambitious – for 5 seasons now, it has operated without the traditional ruse of a finale. On the other hand, it has consistently dangled the far future, the grim monotonous limbo of a wildly colourful man all the while working in the shadow of some of his life displayed in Breaking Bad.

The cringe pop icon, Dhinchak Pooja, dropped her latest track yesterday “Hoga Na Corona”, to widespread… eyerolls. But who is to say Dhinchak Pooja’s song is worse than Gal Gadot’s crowdsourced “Imagine”? Or Narendra Chanchal’s “Kitthon Aaya Corona”?

From Katrina Kaif to Shilpa Shetty, celebrities have been taking to TikTok and Instagram to show off their #HomeFitness routines. The novel coronavirus Covid-19 may have gotten all the gyms put on a temporary lockdown, but for fitness enthusiasts, the grind never stops!

From handwashing PSAs to basic PowerPoint presentations, celebrities across the world are proving they have no idea how to deal with a quarantine. Maybe it would have been better if they had decided to just sit this one out.

In Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion, a virus that originated in Hong Kong, after a bat defecated in a pig pen, is the cause of a pandemic that brings the world to a standstill. The 2011 medical thriller, stacked with eerie parallels to Covid-19, has turned into a prophetic disaster movie of our times – one that foreshadowed the depravity of mankind and the apathy of governments, in alarming detail.

Those worried that Westworld had devolved into a stoned humanities student’s ramblings masquerading as a TV show, I’m happy to inform that era of the show has passed. So is it worth returning to Westworld? For fans, detractors, and even people quarantined because of the coronavirus, the answer is a resounding yes.

The last few months have seen the rise of poetry and parody as powerful tools of protest. And leading the revolution are artists such as Megha Rao and Saloni Gaur, popularly known as Nazma Aapi. The emergence of a clear voice by India’s women is a comforting reassurance that their perspective will be recorded.

Narrated as a slow-burn police procedural, Ladj Ly’s Les Misérables is a commentary on the pervasive, lingering stain of social injustice. The masterful filmmaking evokes the extent of powerlessness that the marginalised are forced to internalise.

Tom Hanks – 63-year-old multiple Oscar winner and one of humanity’s greatest treasures – has been diagnosed with the coronavirus, proving that there is no justice left in the world.

Kidding, starring Jim Carrey, is a show that focuses on the ugly side of positive psychology and the highly individualised process of grief. It makes a case for acknowledging and being responsible for our pain – and rejecting the toxic “Good Vibes Only” culture.

Netflix’s Guilty, which traces the investigation of a rape accusation made on Twitter, had the opportunity to stand out as a film that explores the changing nature of consent in a post #MeToo world. It squanders that chance and instead tells us a story told far too many times – that rape survivors are often disbelieved.

Rewatching Queen is a surreal experience. For once, it isn’t because a movie has aged so horribly, you question your own sensibility and past self for ever liking it. On the contrary, Queen is a rare legit classic, as relevant today as it was in 2014. Queen’s legacy, however, is a complicated mess.

Three days after Devi, the short film starring a fabulous ensemble cast including Kajol, Neha Dhupia, Shruti Hassan, and Neena Kulkarni was released on YouTube, it has amassed over 5.7 million views. The film takes a brutally honest and direct look at sexual abuse and violence in India in heartbreaking detail.

From body-shaming fellow contestants to making fun of the #MeToo movement, as well as getting physically violent with contestants both male and female, Sidharth Shukla seems to have done it all while on Bigg Boss Season 13.

Netflix romcom To All The Boys: PS I Still Love You feels untouched by the cynicism that has seeped into the app-dependent dating lives of the present. It reinstilled my faith in going all the way to chase my own happily ever after. Even if it gives someone the power to break my heart.

Not so shockingly, Bigg Boss crossed another line this year. Season 13 might be the most invasive of all, earning its notoriety for deeds done not just inside the Bigg Boss house but outside it as well, by weaving in the personal issues of participants into the show.

How do corrupt, greedy men who work inured to the law or accountability of any sort, work together? It is a question Narcos: Mexico repeatedly poses, showing us the haywire ways of the drug world that has led to Mexico’s present- day cartel wars.

Now that the award season is finally over, the good news is that your watchlist doesn’t have to include films that the Oscars approve of. It’s time you watch Uncut Gems, The Farewell, and these three other movies that are too good to miss.

There's no better time than now, when #Parasite's worldwide recognition has revealed an appetite for world cinema, to take a deep-dive into Bong Joon-ho’s filmography. Go rewatch Parasite in the theatres as many times as you’d like, but come back after and watch these five films that are a testament of a generational talent working at the absolute height of his powers.

While his rendition of a deranged Joker set off alarm bells at the FBI and in military headquarters, Joaquin Phoenix’s Oscar speech could not have been more virtuous if the Dalai Lama wrote it for him.

Laura Dern is everywhere. In Marriage Story, for which she bagged a Supporting Actress Oscar, she’s effective as the ruthless divorce lawyer Nora. In Big Little Lies, she’s the rich and manipulative Renata Klein, who threatens neighbourhood moms. What Dern does so often is flip an unlikeable woman on her head and reveal what lies beneath.

In Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, Adam Driver's 24th outing in a career spanning a decade, the actor delivers everything that an Oscar-worthy performance stipulates – ingenuity, credibility, and a range of emotional intensity. Yet, he might not win the Oscar.

It’s rare to make a comedy that is informed by its wickedness. Even rare to set it in a homegrown universe that pokes fun at the double standards of middle-class anxieties – death, religion, millennial indecisiveness, and existentialism – in a way which is immediately recognisable. Afsos manages to do both.

Netflix’s BoJack Horseman has made a habit of hitting its viewers right in the feels – but my feels are not ready for the final blow. The show was an uncannily accurate mirror of our own lives, which is why the thought of a less-than-happy ending for our protagonist is so terrifying.

For the bevy of Amy fans, Greta Gerwig’s Little Women is a fantastic vindication of what we’ve known all along about our pet March sister. Amy’s brand of independent feminism takes on a fresh relevance in an era where the world can no longer afford to brush it aside.

Part-Queer Eye, part-Splitsvilla, and complete trainwreck, Netflix’s Indian dating reality show What The Love! is little more than another opportunity for Karan Johar to brag about the list of famous people whose numbers he has saved on his phone.