The big screen is competing with mobile phones and industry wants to minimise risks. But managers sitting in posh offices need to trust the storytellers. That’s how creative industries grow.
The film, starring Ananya Pandey, reveals the complexities of our many lived selves today, where forgetting a romantic relationship feels as unreal as it is accessible.
Those who stir controversies, and make what PM Modi called “unnecessary remarks”, should sit and read the names in the credit roll of Pathaan this time — and perhaps they will know that entertainment is serious work.
As in the case of the professor who called a student a 'terrorist', academic institutions typically resort to suspension and inquiry after the episode. We must caution ourselves against the restorative capacity of these quick fixes
Today, the industry wants “new” interesting women characters on the screen. But, the story still has to be around men, about men. So, this strong woman has to be accommodated as the minor chorus
Anubha Yadav writes: In a time of box-office formulas, tent-pole films, sequels and franchises, the only stars we are investing in are our ‘brands’, which may twinkle but they do not smile or open their arms wide, says the filmmaker
🔴 Anubha Yadav writes: It is one of the few films in which the female gaze takes a form and tells a subliminal story. A story that can't be said aloud for fear of ostracism
