Poonam Agarwal

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The Trap: India's Deadliest Scam 2023

An undercover investigation by the BBC has exposed a blackmail scam that is using instant loan apps to entrap and humiliate people across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Promising easy money, loan app scammers collect personal data from customers’ phones and then use that information to threaten or humiliate people into repayment. The investigation has found that since 2020, in India alone, at least 60 people have killed themselves after being abused by loan apps. But how does the scam work? And who’s profiting from this abuse? BBC Eye goes undercover to take you inside the loan app scam, and to expose the people making money from misery, fear, and shame.
Poonam Agarwal

Poonam Agarwal

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Lorni - The Flaneur 2019

Shem (Adil Hussain), an out of work, self-styled detective with a sharp sense of the streets escapes the lethargy of small town Shillong when he is asked to investigate the disappearance of an object worthy of great cultural value. Navigating narrow streets and dark alleys, he embarks on an emotional and mental journey reflective of his reality and that of Shillong. Shem navigates the city of Shillong in the far flung North East India- an area rife with acute race tensions and an even more diverse cultural identity as compared to the rest of the country. Like the quintessential flaneur, he manoeuvres the real and the imaginable to further complicate the personal, the political and the emotional.
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Dear Jassi 2023 (6)

In 1996 Punjab, India, Canadian-born Jassi falls in love with Mithu, a rickshaw driver beneath her social status. Their attraction is pure and unconditional, but is it strong enough to fight the dictates imposed by Jassi’s family and Punjabi society?
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Thug Life 2025 (5.55)

In a world ruled by crime and betrayal, mafia kingpin Sakthivel and his brother Manikkam rescue a young boy, Amaran, during a violent police shootout and raise him as their own. Years later, when an assassination attempt shakes Sakthivel's empire, suspicion turns inward. Consumed by vengeance, Sakthivel sets out to destroy the very family he once built.