Media, Music and Entertainment

What’s With Indian Cinema And The “Commodification” Of Women?

By Pratik Mantri: A song from a recent movie goes like this “Mere photo ko seene se yaar chipkale saiyan fevicol se”; it further adds lines like “pata le saiyan miss call se”. The song has become a rage everywhere, from nightclubs to marriages. The

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Flipped, Flared and Misled: Another SRK Controversy

By Daphne Clarance: There’s always a reason when it comes to controversies and the obvious is exemplified to destruct the very sources of succinctly placed ideas or thoughts meant to overlap it. That’s how the entire muddled up situation has mushroomed only to challenge stardom and

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Not Just Dancing Around Bushes: Bollywood’s Resistance Against Conventionalism

By Kritika Pramod Kulshrestha: It all started way back in 2001 with the release of Lagaan, an epic movie that depicted unwavering resistance against the taxes imposed by the British on a tiny village in Gujarat through the medium of cricket. Of course before Lagaan,

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10 Oscar-Winning Movies That You Absolutely Need To Watch

By Tanmaya Raj: Since the beginning of the film making era, numerous incredible movies have been filmed, which have left the viewers astounded. However, there are certain movies which surpass the others in the field of direction, cinematography, plot and viewer rating. Some of these

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Vishwaroopam Mired In Serious Controversies Or Are They Simply Marketing Gimmicks?

By Shruti Kesavan: How often do we come across an Indian movie which is the first to utilize Auro 3D sound technology or the nation’s first to be released film on a Direct to Home (DTH) connection? Not very often I’d assume and yet the

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The Responsibility Of The Fourth Estate Versus Its Power

By Manika Jain: Media has always been accused of deteriorating news coverage. With the advent of the era of numerous 24x7 news channels, cheap newspapers, blogs and e-subscriptions; the competition has become dirty, the ultimate victim being the quality and reliability of news coverage. Like

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Love Movies? Let’s Go Desi, Shall We?

By Akhil Kumar: A quick look at the number of Indian feature films certified by the Central Board of Film Certification in 2011 paints a sorry picture of the depiction of regional cinema in Indian cinema journalism; more than 83% of movies that contribute to

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Reading Between Matru And Mandola # Movie Review

By Shubhra Kukreti: Bidding good-bye to his ‘dark films’, Vishal Bhardwaj's Matru ki Bijlee ka Mandola offers us an insightful cinema packaged, or if I may say, advertised as a rom-com. The movie has all the essential masala of a Bollywood blockbuster yet it fails

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Dear MTV, Who Turned Off The Music?

By Joanna Shruti Sundharam: When popular music channels like MTV and Channel V transform into GECs-General Entertainment Channels, it forces one to think, what actually happened? Channels dedicated to music- music videos in particular, have been around for a very long time. We do still

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