Pink (2016) addresses one of the most pressing yet often disregarded challenges facing our society — gender inequality, misogyny and the violence that emanates from them. The story takes place in Delhi, which has become the go-to setting for filmmakers telling tales of toxic masculinity and gender-based violence, and understandably so for its capacity to ...
Pink (2016) addresses one of the most pressing yet often disregarded challenges facing our society ...
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It’s been more than 6 months of being prisoners at home and scavenging around on the streaming platforms to justify bearing the self-proclaimed tag of a ‘movie buff’. With an invisible beast waging devastation outside, people living in fear of strained medical services growing inaccessible by the day, and many more trying to hold on ...
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Legendary filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, perhaps India’s finest exponent of melodrama, once remarked in defense of the technique, “Film is not a form, it has forms. I am not afraid of melodrama. To use melodrama is one’s birthright, it is a form”. While his work embodied this form as a means of expression, most of Hindi ...
Legendary filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, perhaps India’s finest exponent of melodrama, once remarked in defense of ...
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Why is it that the stately golden knight with the crusader’s sword in its hands poised on a film reel a.k.a ‘Uncle Oscar’ continues to be off-limits early every year for the films from hungry, globalised, expansionist 21st century India? The country with the largest film industry in the world in terms of releases, an ...
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