Hasina is having a multiplex premiere in Chennai. How does it feel?
It is good that serious, non-Hindi cinema also gets such exposure.
Do multiplex platforms offer hope for such films?
This one-off release is not going to solve the imbroglio.
The Kannada filmmaker whose Dweepa won the Swarnakamal for the best film in 2002, discusses serious cinema on the eve of the premiere of his Hasina.
A new generation of historians are bringing the subject out of the shadow of Marx and Nehru, fulfilling its role of restoring civilisational pride among Indians.
The BJP, with its insistence on the purity of Hindu Rashtra, would sadly reduce the soaring generosity of their founding vision to the petty bigotry of majoritarian chauvinism.
Historiography under previous governments can, and should, be contested. But history that’s being rewritten under the present government is not merely to eulogise some leaders, but also, and more worryingly, to condemn several chapters of the past.
Hasina is having a multiplex premiere in Chennai. How does it feel?
It is good that serious, non-Hindi cinema also gets such exposure.
Do multiplex platforms offer hope for such films?
This one-off release is not going to solve the imbroglio.