With films based on real life characters/events increasingly getting entangled in legal battles, it’s time to go back to the storyboard and ask the moot question—is ethical consent possible in cinema?
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Apeksha is a Senior Assistant Editor and writes on cinema, politics, art, gender and social justice. She has a Ph.D in Cinema Studies from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
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