cinema
Male and Malevolent in Kerala
PR Ramesh
Only in Kerala. Where an actor accused in a rape case is feted and protected by a powerful brotherhood in the industry while the victim, a popular heroine of South Indian cinema, supported by a few of her feisty female colleagues, fights alone for justice in the face of rising insensitivity and indifference from the patriarchs of Malayalam cinema
Pulp Paradox
By pandering to the prurient fantasies of Malayali men, Kerala’s popular culture has abetted misogyny in life and politics
The Last Anti-Hero: Sanjay Dutt in Life and Art
Can we expect objectivity from an industry that has always made excuses for India’s most polarising star?
Rajkumar Hirani: ‘I don’t judge people’
Rajkumar Hirani on making his first biopic and the complexity that is Sanjay Dutt
Found in Translation
The art of setting the box office alight by adapting Hollywood films to the Indian idiom
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