In a culture that worships the idea of women as caregivers, Hindi cinema has turned emotional labour into an aesthetic—a soft-focus montage of waiting, forgiving, and loving harder.
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Samina Motlekar is a screenwriter and former advertising film producer based in Bombay.
Neeraj Ghaywan's Homebound is a rare example of working-class lives depicted without voyeurism or as decor
In the rush to harness Alzheimer’s for guaranteed pathos, Bollywood often reduces the condition to a narrative convenience. And while this may deliver a high-voltage climax, it rarely does justice to the lived reality of dementia.
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