India’s Convenient Feminism, Where Deepika is a Drug Addict and Kangana is Brave
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India’s Convenient Feminism, Where Deepika is a Drug Addict and Kangana is Brave

The response to Payal Ghosh accusing Anurag Kashyap of sexual assault, has been very different from the time fans leapt to defend accused stars like Nana Patekar and Alok Nath, and defamed the women who gave accounts. Meanwhile, Kangana Ranaut compared the breaking down of her offices to being raped and insisted she was being targeted as a woman, while referring to female colleagues as soft porn stars and fake feminists. Bollywood’s feminism is dependent on convenience.
Ludo Review: Anurag Basu Loses the Game and the Plot in His New Film
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Ludo Review: Anurag Basu Loses the Game and the Plot in His New Film

Anurag Basu’s Ludo is a film about life and death that wants to be meaningful and meaningless at the same time. It translates the futility of finding logic in unpredictability and the method in the madness by way of four different genres. It might come across as the filmmaker’s most structured outing, but it is his most chaotic film.