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Plus: Reviews of 'Stree 2', 'Vedaa' and ‘Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba’. Here's a list of this week's top reads from The Reel.

‘Shekhar Home’: How Kay Kay Menon brought Sherlock Holmes home

The JioCinema series stars Kay Kay Menon as a Bengali version of the iconic British detective.

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‘Manorathangal’ review: MT Vasudevan Nair is the star of a show based on his stories

The nine-episode Malayalam anthology series is available on ZEE5.

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‘Stree 2’ review: Bigger, nuttier, scarier

Amar Kaushik’s sequel to ‘Stree’ stars Shraddha Kapoor, Rajkummar Rao, Abhishek Banerjee, Aparshakti Khurana and Pankaj Tripathi.

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‘Vedaa’ review: Caste in the same mould

Nikkhil Advani’s film stars John Abraham, Sharvari and Abhishek Banerjee.

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‘Shekhar Home’ review: An irreverent adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories

The six-episode series created by Srijit Mukherji and Aniruddha Guha is out on JioCinema.

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‘Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba’ review: Too clever by half

Jayprad Desai’s thriller, starring Taapsee Pannu, Vikrant Massey and Sunny Kaushal, is out on Netflix.

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Start the week with a film: In ‘Swades’, the return of Mohan Bhargav and Shah Rukh Khan

Ashutosh Gowariker’s acclaimed drama is available on Netflix.

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