From quiet feminism in Laapataa Ladies to TVF’s smash hit Panchayat, a nostalgia-infused Indian rural landscape has found a firm footing in the world of OTT viewership.
According to Pakistani film critic Omer Adil, filmmakers of the subcontinent have created a fantasy chimaera, a celluloid courtesan, which has nothing to do with tawaifs.
Crew trains its guns on Mallya from the get-go – showcasing his famous ‘gift packs’ and ‘welcome videos’, and dressing its on-screen stewardesses in Kingfisher-like red uniforms.
As the country hurtles toward the general election, more propaganda films are set to follow: Accident or Conspiracy: Godhra, The Sabarmati Report, and Emergency.
Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi explores the aftermath of loss, Pagglait shows how death and grief don’t always go hand in hand while Goodbye delves into a dysfunctional family’s coping mechanisms.
12th Fail shows a Hindi-medium aspirant in the world of elite English-speaking competitors moulded for sarkari naukri—and the deep-seated biases that lay in between.
The ground-breaking character this year is Ammaji in Vishal Bharadwaj’s Khufiya. She is a smart inversion of the usual sanskari, satsang-going Bollywood mother.
The film conveniently glosses over the plight of doctors, offering the simplistic view that one vaccine solved all of the administrative problems India suffered during the Covid crisis.
Indians see West Asia as one uninterrupted wash of Islam, but the reality is more complex. For the Druze, support from Israel—where they are a recognised minority—is now critical.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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