Ayan Mukerji’s coming-of-age romance Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani clocks ten years today. The film, starring Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone along with Kalki Koechlin and Aditya Roy Kapur, was widely adored upon release, achieving cult status among the Indian youth. Marking the film’s tenth anniversary, director Ayan Mukerji wrote a long post on Instagram. “How we’ve all grown and learnt …
This week, I look at how Imtiaz Ali’s breakthrough film presented a new, beloved version of the trope and why, even after all these years, it still continues to be the favourite weapon in the arsenal of male directors. Film critic Nathan Rabin, who coined the term, describes it as a female character in films that “exists solely in the …
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