Filmmakers, rewrite narratives
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Filmmakers, rewrite narratives

The Hindu  

Indian cinema has long shaped cultural norms, inspiring dreams but also reinforcing harmful stereotypes. The term “love failure”, popularised by cinema, reinforces the idea that love is a conquest and rejection is a loss. So, filmmakers should consciously avoid using the term “love failure” in their movies, as it carries a deeply negative connotation. Instant attraction Indian films often depict love at first sight, reducing women to mere objects of attraction. When movies depict rejection as an insult to male pride, they contribute to a culture in which women fear the consequences of saying ‘no’.

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Kerala Police to harness star power to lessen filmdom’s accent on gory cinemas
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Kerala Police to harness star power to lessen filmdom’s accent on gory cinemas

The Hindu  

The Kerala Police plan to enlist the help of the Association of Malayalam Movie Artists to lessen the entertainment industry’s “growing accent on money-spinning” murder and mutilation films, which arguably desensitise youth to the horrors of wanton physical violence. The move comes as investigators continue to search for credible psychological insights into the motivations of the 23-year-old charged with the …

Book Review | Appreciating Melodrama: Challenging Western perceptions Piyush Roy offers a fresh view on Indian cinema
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Book Review | Appreciating Melodrama: Challenging Western perceptions Piyush Roy offers a fresh view on Indian cinema

Firstpost  

Melodrama, as an art form, has a rich history that continues to captivate audiences worldwide with its emotional intensity and dramatic storytelling. In the book Appreciating Melodrama: Theory and Practice in Indian Cinema and Television by Piyush Roy, the author explores and acknowledges the enduring impact of the ancient Sanskrit drama treatise, the Natyashastra, and its aesthetics theory, the ‘Rasa’ …

‘The Kerala Story’ producer gets note threatening to bomb a theatre screening movie in Mauritius, increases security: Details
1 year, 9 months ago

‘The Kerala Story’ producer gets note threatening to bomb a theatre screening movie in Mauritius, increases security: Details

Op India  

Vipul Amrutlal Shah’s recently released hit “The Kerala Story” has been attracting admiration and interest from all over the world. Vipul Amrutal recently increased the security after he received a threatening note claiming to bomb a theatre screening of ‘The Kerala Story’ in Mauritius. A threat to plant explosives at the cinema in response to the showing of the movie …

Indian Cinema & Caste: Can Coming-of-Age Content Change the 'Victim' Narrative?
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Indian Cinema & Caste: Can Coming-of-Age Content Change the 'Victim' Narrative?

The Quint  

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‘A1’ movie review: Santhanam murders every woke mind with a barrage of regressive tropes
5 years, 7 months ago

‘A1’ movie review: Santhanam murders every woke mind with a barrage of regressive tropes

The Hindu  

It’s a fascinating exercise to study the conceit of an average Tamil movie, for it explicitly spells out the problematic mindset of an average movie goer. When Saravanan asks if she’s a “loosu ponnu” —Tamil cinema’s oldest trope — she forcefully kisses him. A1 Cast: Santhanam, Tara Alisha Berry, MS Bhaskar, Rajendran and Yatin Karyekar Director: Johnson K Storyline: Saravanan …

An ugly and unidirectional love
11 years, 6 months ago

An ugly and unidirectional love

Hindustan Times  

An attack on a woman student and the suicide of a ‘spurned’ boyfriend a while ago shocked the campus community at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi. Many new entrants to the university system, who come from a very wide variety of socio-economic backgrounds, envy and fear the economic and social independence of women, themselves often from Dalit and OBC …

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