WATCH: Single Papa
A new Hindi family comedy series about unconventional parenthood, titled Single Papa, is set to hit Netflix on Dec 12.
The first-look trailer, which dropped on Nov 20, looks promising with Kunal Kemmu in the lead role as Gaurav: a recently divorced man-child in his 30s who serendipitously finds a baby in the backseat of his car.
The show’s premise is that he decides to adopt the baby and raise it on his own as a single parent, to the bewilderment of his family.
A mix between American sitcom Modern Family and Adam Sandler’s Big Daddy, the series offers a zany dose of chaos, heart, and unmistakable Indian family sentiment.
Described as someone who still relies on his mother to buy his underwear and is dependent on timely pocket money from his father, Gaurav will have to change over a new leaf and prove that he can be a capable and responsible father.
LISTEN: Spotify Wrapped
You know the year-end is near when Spotify drops its annual Wrapped – a successful marketing campaign which provides users with a personalised, shareable snapshot of their listening habits. It usually features statistics on the total number of minutes listened, the top artists, genres and tracks in aesthetically-designed stories that can be posted directly to social media.
This year, Spotify added a new feature that calculates your listening age based on which era of music you listened to the most.
In India, the campaign was accompanied by two star-led films: Emraan Hashmi and Raghav Juyal fronted the Hindi version, while R. Sarathkumar anchored the Tamil one.
In the latter, the veteran Tamil actor reprised his role as Nattamai in the 1994 film of the same name and urged the youngsters to listen to more traditional folk songs – only for his Spotify Wrapped to be exposed, revealing that his most listened to track was Oorum Blood from the 2025 film Dude, which has been streamed over 55 million times worldwide.
READ: The Eleventh Hour
Published on Nov 4, The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories is a collection of short stories by Indian-born British-American novelist Salman Rushdie. It is the first fiction he has written since his stabbing incident in 2022, which left him blind in one eye.
This book takes a detour from Rushdie’s signature literary style of magical realism, which blends realistic settings with fantastical elements.
It instead takes on a grittier tone and explores the themes of mortality, age, and memory more expressively.
An exception is The Musician of Kahani, which focuses on a magical, gifted pianist from Mumbai who uses her talent to bring blessings and curses to the wealthy family she marries into.
Some critics highlighted this particular short story as a return to form for Rushdie, due to its parallels with his 1981 Booker Prize-winning novel Midnight’s Children.
