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Indrani Mukerjea: Buried Truth (2024) Docu-series, 4 episodes. From the land of the Veda and the Arthashashtra comes an intriguing case of a missing person, which has remained unresolved to date. In the land that believes that every nasty action has a compelling reaction with the belief that no evil deed will not go unpunished in this birth or next, perhaps punishment could only be meted out in the next life. In 2008, The Wall Street Journal hailed Indrani Mukerjea as one of the 50 ladies to watch, and India conferred her with the award 'Uttar Ratna' for her outstanding work in the art, media, and broadcasting sector. By 2015, she had her hands full fending off money laundering charges and fighting a murder charge. Her past is blurry for a start. Born Pori Dora, her actual birthdate is queried. In her early teenage years in Guwahati, Assam, she accused her father of sexually molesting her. She went off to Shillong, Meghalaya, for studies, where she met her first husband, Siddh...

Cunk on Earth (BBC Documentary S1, E1-5; 2022) Creator: Charlie Brooker If you find the following joke particularly funny, you will enjoy Philomena Cunk and her caustic below-belt deadpan British comedy. FG asks X, “where have you been? ... haven't seen you in a while.” X replies, “Oh, I have just been to Amritsar.” “But why did you go there?” asks FG. “...it was just on my bucket list. I always wanted to go there,” said X. To which FG, with facial expressions a poker player would envy, blurted, “so now that you have fulfilled your bucket list, does that mean now you can happily kick the bucket?” Diane Morgan appears as the persona of Philomena Cunk, a clueless TV comperè who interviews high-level scientists and academicians in this mockumentary. In a nutshell, it narrates the evolution of mankind and civilization as they progress from cave dwellers to their current status as the most successful species on Earth. At the end of the five episodes, the viewers go off with the idea th...