Representation Of Queer Identities On OTT Platforms Cinema is a reflection of society. With the ability to transcend physical space and time, it has proven to be a means of entertainment, learning, and escape. Hindi Cinema, also known as Bollywood, continues to be the world’s largest producer of films. The new online space, OTT (Over …
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Why Are Teenage LGBTQIA+ Relationships In The Media Toxic? With the show Sex Education trending on Netflix the moment it airs, teenage relationships have been brought into the limelight. While topics which previously considered taboo are now being discussed openly, we are still falling behind in one particular aspect: how are LGBT people depicted in …
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A truly ‘AWE!’some film Hailing from a Telugu family, I have always been quite happy with the society I had been living in – until I came to study in Delhi. That was when I got to see different perspectives and see the better part of the world. I have been a cinephile since birth …
Defying Delusion – ‘Margarita With A Straw’ 7.8 billion people on earth. Imagine the amount of sex we are having. How many people hug and kiss every day. And how many fall in love. Imagine how many casually hook-up. All different. Someone’s brown, someone’s yellow; someone is white and someone is black. You could be …
‘Haraamkhor’: The Wretched And Windmills That Saw It All Haraamkhor is a one-of-a-kind movie where even one mistake could have changed the movie for the worse. It explores the taboo around sexual relationships between a teacher and an underage student who did not look good to the Censor Board and could get a green signal …
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An Ode To Middle-Class Dreams: ‘Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitaare’ Long gone are the days when media would use objects such as swans and flowers to represent sexual advances allegorically. Bollywood and mainstream media have always been rather thorny about addressing subject matter relating to women’s needs and fighting against the patriarchal we have …
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‘Badhaai Ho’ – Mom, Dad, That’s Just Gross! A tricky theme in the garb of wit and humor, the film Badhaai Ho tackles the apprehensions regarding sex and pregnancy in the most Indian and relatable way ever. There is no false trope of empowerment, no long feminist narrations, or any kind of overzealous attempts at …
Promoting The Freedom To Bind: Women And Narrative Entrapment In ‘Bombay Begums’ This article contains spoilers! As Bollywood uses snippets from reality to portray honest accounts of sexuality, stigma, and spatial changes, on-screen representation of femininity in India’s entertainment industry easily becomes a scale for measuring women’s acceptability in the real world. With the recent release …
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How Prosperous Is ‘Laxmii’ Movie Narrative For The Transgender People? The world of media can provide space for different representations. It provides opportunities for different narratives to come-in and makes themselves heard, through their media story. However, for the same, there are a series of sanctions that a particular narrative has to acquire. It has …
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