Hero worship gone wrong: Deepanjana Pal writes on Pushpa 2
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Hero worship gone wrong: Deepanjana Pal writes on Pushpa 2

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Never mind what that means for the world he inhabits. Soon enough, despite a few well-imagined sequences, the film devolves into a celebration of an action hero who reflects both the anxieties and fantasies of contemporary Indian masculinity. At one point in the first half of Pushpa 2: The Rule, the titular hero throws down a challenge to his nemesis, the police officer Bhanwar Singh Shekhawat. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} At one point in the first half of Pushpa 2: The Rule, the titular hero throws down a challenge to his nemesis, the police officer Bhanwar Singh Shekhawat. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} For the record, red sandalwood is a slow-growing, fire-hardy, drought-resistant, endangered tree species that takes between 25 and 40 years to mature.

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Hero worship gone wrong: Deepanjana Pal writes on Pushpa 2
3 months, 1 week ago

Hero worship gone wrong: Deepanjana Pal writes on Pushpa 2

Hindustan Times  

At one point in the first half of Pushpa 2: The Rule, the titular hero throws down a challenge to his nemesis, the police officer Bhanwar Singh Shekhawat. Pushpa promises to whisk an enormous heap of red sanders logs out from under the noses of patrolling cops, just to snub the cop. The film even celebrates how red sandalwood is …