The grandmother's insistence on consulting a girl’s astrological birth chart to determine her capacity to bear a son underlines how superstition and patriarchy are deeply intertwined.
The 1963 film Dil Hi Toh Hai, starring Raj Kapoor and Nutan, is a compelling outlier in the ‘Muslim Social’ genre. It defied conventions, even if gently.
At the launch of Swapnil Rai's book 'Networked Bollywood' in Delhi, journalists Kaveree Bamzai, Aseem Chhabra, and associate professor Vibodh Parthasarathi talked about star power and its global impact.
A film without a lead pair, no romance, or masala and a purist director who belonged to theatre is recipe for commercial failure in Bollywood even today.
With ChatGPT and bot-based conversation between mankind and bots, it's going to be more difficult to gauge if the interactions are real, & could even mean a potential end of democracy.
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.
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