Here’s taking a look at some of the iconic films by YRF, that defines its larger-than-life legacy Yash Raj Films completed a glorious 50 years in the Bollywood industry last month. It was founded by late filmmaker Yash Chopra. YRF is popularly known for its mushy romantic dramas and colourful sets. The banner started experimenting […]

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Bollywood’s #MeToo marks two years of the movement that started with allegations of sexual misconduct against Nana Patekar and has now stung Anurag Kashyap. But India’s legal system has been sluggish whereas Hollywood predators are already in jail It’s a comeback, but not a pleasant one. The MeToo movement seems to have resurfaced yet again […]

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A community media organisation, Video Volunteers, gives voice to our society’s unheard voices and puts a face to the statistics about poverty and marginalisation What’s the best way to portray the story of one community? The common answer to this would be by making a film or video, by documenting the issues faced by them.  But […]

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Netflix’s Cargo is a fresh and promising attempt at the less explored sci-fi genre in Hindi cinema The recently released Netflix film Cargo has a unique plot. The story revolves around ‘post-death transition services’. The 113-minute film quenches one’s curiosity about the afterlife, blending myth with science — and takes its audience on a journey […]

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Two reluctant actresses come together to create a Netflix series that is taking audiences by storm Masaba Masaba, as evident from the title — is based on the life of 31-year-old Masaba Gupta. The series has become the talking point in families for its touching portrayal of a modern mother-daughter relationship. The reluctance to make […]

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The curated content on various OTT platforms like Netflix will take decades to watch. The burden of choice is daunting Netflix came out with a documentary—The Social Dilemma—that highlights how various social networking sites manipulate we the human psychologically—are nothing more than merely a ‘products’—to further the business interests of their clients—the advertisers. Or simply, […]

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The vilification of the Hindi film industry is misplaced and destructive. Not only do movies earn enormous profit, they employ lakhs of people and give work to ancillary industry. On top of that, they are repositories of our syncretic culture Bollywood is in the doldrums and it is not just due to Covid-19. There is […]

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Civic Studios conducted a study that analysed online conversations following the movie’s release and found greatly varying reactions of female social media users to Amrita’s decision in Thappad Anubhav Sinha’s Thappad, a story of patriarchal violence and a woman’s refusal to accept it, released at a time when domestic violence cases all over the world were […]

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