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The Caste Blindness of Bollywood NRI Genre Films – Senses of Cinema

When High Caste Trumps Low Class! In a recent Netflix series Decoupled (Hardik Mehta, 2022), high profile, upper class/caste couple Arya Iyer (R. Madhavan), a renowned author, and Shruti (Surveen Chawla) a businesswoman, can’t stand the body odour of their driver Ganesh. On Shruti’s insistence a drunk Arya categorically tells Ganesh that he stinks, and

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Why You Don’t Leave? Bandra English and its Sources in Love Per Square Foot – Senses of Cinema

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Love per Square Foot (Anand Tiwari, 2018), “Bollywood’s debut on Netflix”1 , is a romantic film with Mumbai as love object2. The opening credits are a montage of the major landmarks of the city with its famous commuter trains. Sanjay Chaturvedi (Vicky Kaushal) and Karina D’Souza (Angira Dhar) are both employees at a large bank,

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A Devdas For Every Generation – Senses of Cinema

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Devdas is an epic semi-autobiographical Bengali novella written by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. The novel was written in 1901, though was not published until 1917 due to Chattopadhyay’s embarrassment over his story1. He published several novels such as Nishkriti, Parineeta and Srikanta, but Devdas remains his most popular novel. Devdas is a tragic love story of

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Anurag Kashyap’s Gulaal – Senses of Cinema

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Anurag Kashyap is Bollywood’s enfant terrible. The release of his first film Paanch (2003) was prevented by the Indian censors owing to its violent content. The film, loosely based on serial killings that happened in the Indian city of Pune, was banned for its explicit portrayal of violence. His second film Black Friday (2004), a

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Indian Cinemas, Bollywood and the World – Senses of Cinema

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2010: it’s a cold March afternoon and a group of secondary school students is gathered to watch My Name is Khan (Karan Johar, 2010). The atmosphere is electric: the film has been advertised for a good part of a year and there is a lot of anticipation, not only because Shahrukh Khan and Kajol make

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OTT to spoil the audience with ample and endless content?

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“No traditional Friday box office opening pressure and no chest-thumping about gross worldwide collections, making the lifespan of films infinite.” In an exclusive discussion with BOC, Mr. Aamod Gupte, Senior Corporate Counsel with over 30 years of experience in media, entertainment and digital space put light on everything going in, by, and for the OTT.

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The Most Exploited & Unlucky Woman-Meena Kumari

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Veteran journalist Vinod Mehta wrote the biography of Meena Kumari in 1972. In this book, he wrote about the exploitation of Meena Kumari whoever came close to her. She was first exploited by her family. She started out as Baby Meena, a child artist and a breadwinner of the family. As a child, she wasn’t interested in a

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Neeraj- Karwan Guzar Gaya Ghubaar Dekhte Rahe.

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Gopal Das Neeraj was a poet first then a lyricist. He started writing poetry and sharing stage, at times with stalwarts who were mesmerized with the poems of this young man. There are incidents where he used to write poems with another pseudonym, ‘Bhavuk Etahvi’. But once he reached the stage of Kavi Sammelan, there was

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DILIP KUMAR- The Ultimate Method Actor

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Dilip Kumar was not only one of the earliest superstars of Hindi cinema, but also one of the few legendary artists India has seen. Dilip Kumar’s resume contains many of Indian cinema’s landmark, genre-defining roles. His performances as the drunken, doomed lover in Devdas and the rebellious royal son in Mughal-e-Azam have been endlessly referenced by his successors on-screen.

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Amit Masurkar’s ‘Sherni’ (2021) Review – The Cinemawala

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“Bandar baat ka khela.. khele main hai jhamele bade.. Neend main hoe hazamat, jaage toh phir tote ude…” “Bandar-baat”, aka the story of two cats fighting for a cake and a monkey offering his services to make equal shares of the cake to both of them is known to all and sundry. That the monkey

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The Caste Blindness of Bollywood NRI Genre Films – Senses of Cinema

Why You Don’t Leave? Bandra English and its Sources in Love Per Square Foot – Senses of Cinema

A Devdas For Every Generation – Senses of Cinema

Anurag Kashyap’s Gulaal – Senses of Cinema

Indian Cinemas, Bollywood and the World – Senses of Cinema

OTT to spoil the audience with ample and endless content?

The Most Exploited & Unlucky Woman-Meena Kumari

Neeraj- Karwan Guzar Gaya Ghubaar Dekhte Rahe.

DILIP KUMAR- The Ultimate Method Actor

Amit Masurkar’s ‘Sherni’ (2021) Review – The Cinemawala

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