Exploring new caste narratives in Masaan and Newton

Representation of caste on the big screen has seen an interesting departure from the established portrayals of the past. The offensive and unsavoury depictions of the defeated, helpless, dependent, unrefined, unimportant lower caste protagonist or supporting character bereft of agency has finally received criticism and is seeing gradual erasure.

Why do wild tales fail to make it from forests to films?

A search on Google with the phrase ‘Bollywood movies on wildlife’ presents a list of articles that talk about adorable animals stealing the show from actors or best Bollywood movies with animals in them, and more results on those lines. Everything,  except wildlife. Perhaps, the reason is because not many movies have been made on them.

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