Posted inPop Culture
Where Bigg Boss Meets The Shining
Cabin fever might start with a wilfully incomplete chore, then go on to verbal snapping, and finally it ends with you throwing your own urine at your fellow inmates.
Posted inGender
Despite Bollywood Influences, I am Raising Two Feminist Sons. Here’s How To Do It
My sons and I love watching Bollywood movies together, but finding a film devoid of misogyny, objectification of women, and innuendo is a task. How do I explain to my kids what is wrong with “6 din, Ladki in” when SRK is mouthing it as if it’s the most chivalrous way to woo a girl in Kal Ho Naa Ho?
Posted inBollywood
Mujhse Dosti Karoge: What Bollywood Gets Wrong about Friendships
Hindi cinema made us believe that friends are forever and that dosti comes without an expiry date. But life’s not all Kuch Kuch Hota Hai or Dil Chahta Hai. Friendship requires work and filmy fundas such as “Pyaar dosti hai” and “No sorry, no thank you” are flawed.
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Inside the Campy Cult of B-Grade Hindi Film Dacoits
Long before Abhishek Chaubey’s Sonchiriya, daakus were constant stars of films churned out by the B-grade Hindi film industry. In one, Gabbar is a lovelorn Romeo, and in the other, Gabbar is a woman and Jai and Veeru are made to dance in front of her.
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Pushpa, KGF and How Massive Beards Came to Replace Hairy Chests as a Sign of Masculinity
There was time a when our heroes carried hair on their chest as a sign of restrained heroism. It’s absurd really, but films like Pushpa and KGF imply the arrival of the most explicit and visible evidence yet of a man’s virility, troublingly told through violence – his overgrown beard.
