Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s films may be over-the-top, but by shining the spotlight on women who are otherwise forced to work on the edges of acceptable society, he gives them agency.
20 years ago, Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Devdas renewed the old toxic Indian problem of looking at alcoholism through the lens of romantic loss, and not for the problem that it is.
What made him ‘Akbar the Great’ was not the might of his armies alone, but the political architecture he built to sustain power over a subcontinent teeming with diversity.
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