It has been over fifty days since the release of Rajinikanth’s Petta and Ajith’s Viswasam. It can be safely said that both, Thalaivar and Thala ,were winners at the box office. Released during the Pongal season in Tamil Nadu earlier this year, and also across the country and the world, both the movies were unstoppable.... Continue Reading →
Sairat, Dhadak and the curse of the ‘Bollywood touch’
Perhaps the name of this post should have been ‘Everything wrong with Dhadak’. But let’s play nice. If you came here looking for an unpopular opinion on the movie, click away. This is an explanation of a popular opinion associated with the airbrushed version of Sairat – also fondly known as Dhadak. Dhadak’s problem is... Continue Reading →
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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