Indian
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Ka Bodyscapes
You need to adopt an Indian sensibility and momentarily put aside your usual Western discernment when you view the second feature film of New York based writer/director Jayan Cherian which has so outraged the Indian Film Censors that they have banned it from being played in the country. What has caused them so much offense…
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Sisak : a touching silent queer Indian love story
The fact that it is still illegal to be gay in India doesn’t in anyway diminish the presence of a significant LGBT population, it simply means that they must furtively live their lives in the shadows. Therefore creating any sort of art/culture for the community comes with great risks for all those concerned, but nevertheless that…
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Parched
Leena Yadav‘s contemporary tale of village life in rural India told from the perspective of four women : three close friends in their mid 30’s and one new bride, starts off by being sufficiently harrowing to shock western audiences and then it gradually tapers to end on a more rosier note less we should think…
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Margarita, With A Straw
Laila may be wheelchair bound because she has cerebral palsy, but it hardly seems an obstacle to stop this young student at the University of Delhi from doing exactly what she wants to do. Encouraged by her middle-class parents, she never lets her disability stop her getting exactly what she wants in life. That is until…
