About Peepals

A film journal for the country that actually goes to the movies.

Peepals is a weekly editorial dispatch on Indian cinema. Bollywood, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Punjabi — every Friday we watch what India watches, and we write about it with rigor and love.

How we work

The Peepals Council is a hybrid room. A weekly scan pulls every new Indian release from TMDB and India-first sources. Our editors then read, watch and cross-reference reviews from a curated panel of trusted critics before publishing an original, signed verdict.

The Peepals promise

  • No paid reviews. No sponsored stars. Ever.
  • Every review is signed and dated.
  • Every rating has a written reason.
  • Reader testimonies are published alongside our verdict.
Peepals is what we wished existed when we grew up on Friday morning newspaper reviews — but online, in colour, and for every language India loves.