☂In the world of jingoism and violent ideas of nationalism, Swades stands apart for its genuine and intense love for the nation, with all its flaws.
Saumya Baijal
Editor
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🐎Shree 420 And Jagte Raho are deeply socialist in nature. They speak of community and togetherness in different contexts, but still hold power accountable at every stage.
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Rajkumar Hirani's PK was released ten years ago. Now, more than ever, we need another braver PK to appear onscreen.
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▨This October, Shah Rukh Khan’s Don completes 18 years since its release. It’s the perfect time to look back at the iconic Don franchise.
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💦Hindi cinema has a long-standing history of legitimising and perpetuating rape culture
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𓂃Very few writers and lyricists have woven anger into poetry with such ease as Gulzar, and made it a part of everyday cultural language.
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൩In this dystopian world, Guru Dutt becomes more and more essential than ever. As an artist who reminds us to feel. To linger on pathos and let us absorb it
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🌌Despite being added to each other on social networks and our electronic leashes, we are still in the midst of a loneliness epidemic, acute as it is for the digital natives born in a world of networks but limited connections.
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🐓One of the most influential, popular and expensive industries is now being reduced to a political tool to weave narratives that conform to the ruling regime and help them spread their agendas
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꧃With commercial Hindi cinema following patriarchal tropes, indie films like ‘All India Rank’ and ‘Laapata Ladies’ bring to the big screen the feminist idioms we desperately need. They showcase real people with their real needs, desires, and loves, the way they ought to be.
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