Feminine narratives in Hindi serials Have you been watching TV? What are some of your favorite serials? I was just channel hopping a few days back and here is something that struck me with content on Hindi general entertainment channels such as Star, Colors, Zee and Sony. The content on air currently appears to reflect some subtle cues of change in what is popularly referred to as Indian values. So what do some of the key female narratives indicate? ...
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In my last article I talked about the emerging female narratives in Hindi serials. In this issue, I shift the focus to the male narratives. 1. There is a great deal of emotional stress in their lives but there is no precedence about how they should deal with it. As a result each man making his own path to navigate through this emotional maze. The father figure archetype getting a bit diffused. It is interesting to note that the male protagonist from the popular serial Bade Acche Lagte Hai is called Ram. If we take a page out of the ...
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Uncritical optimism about everything Indian isn’t sensible. Like every nation in the world, India has its share of problems and concerns, both big and small, whose solutions haven’t been unearthed as yet. However, here is some news that deserves to be told. Indian cinema is getting better by the day, with quality films from different states making their presence felt. More and more filmmakers in regional languages are looking around the stereotype; novel thematic explorations are being encouraged by both the viewer and the producer; at least one dialect has joined the group of languages and dialects in which films ...
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One look at the any two films from different parts of the world and you would invariably think them to be chalk and cheese. But, even though the landscape might be different, there are times you cannot ignore the fact the deep below the different language, different people and different culture, the two good foreign films end up speaking the same emotional language. These recent world cinema films might not have created major ripples (some, unfortunately have gone unnoticed), but they have in them to create profound impact that can be felt at the any corner of the globe. ...
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Shweta Pandit could easily pass off as one of the many good looking students who had assembled at the University of Wollongong Dubai to hear veteran director Subhash Ghai speak. The playback singer, song writer and live performer who had performed with AR Rehman in his concert in Dubai comes from the family of the maestro of Hindustani classical music, Pandit Jasraj. ...
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Laxmikant Pyarelal composed songs that teenyboppers hum even today. Laxmikant Pyarelal songs like Chahunga main tujhe saanjh saware (Dosti), Om shanti om, Darde dil (Karz), Bindya chmekegi (Do Raste), My name is Lakhan (Ram-Lakhan) and Jumma chumma (Hum) still top the charts, and have carved a place for posterity. A musician duo, whose quest was more than just music, as Mritunjay Kumar’s freewheeling conversation with the irrepressible Pyarelal reveals that eventful musical odyssey. ...
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Shooting off the mouth is common and with more and more celebrities unsure of the longevity of their fame, foot in the mouth might make them seem silly, but it still puts them in the spotlight, as Rajesh Iyer finds out through some recent bloopers. Celebrities give us ample reason to revel. Some of it out of their sheer achievements that the lesser mortals love to laud with fervour, but many because invariably celebrities get infected by this disease most of them take it as their birthright. Well, actually the birthright they think is that they can say anything and ...
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There’s no denying that we have been slow learners when it comes to adapting techniques in Indian films. But, going by the spate of movies back to back, it seems the Indian film industry has started giving technology the due it deserves in the present cinematic scenario. No, we aren’t talking about using technology in making of a film, but using technology as the very epicentre, around which the story itself revolves. No matter what amount of emotions and other normal ingredients the films have, but very core of the movie would be the technology itself. ...
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100 years of National Anthem A strange turn of fortune surrounds social activist Anna Hazare’s fast against corruption on December 27. The day is significant because India’s national anthem, Jana Gana Mana, celebrates its centenary on the same day. The irony is unmistakable as the nation wages a second struggle for freedom from internal corruption, or the enemy within. ...
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Obituary is a wrong word when it comes to Dev Anand. Can he ever die? Call it Dev Anand Biography. Forget the mortal body. The inherent soul, that immortal spirit lingers ever so young. Little wonder they called him ‘Evergreen’, and Dev Anand’s movies timeless. Rajesh Iyer celebrates the indomitable spirit called Dev Anand. Millions of words have been written about him and his style. It is not just Dev Anand’s movies That slight jerk of his head to the side, that effervescent smile, that charismatic twisted walk, that style statement that every frame he stood, that sheer charisma that ...
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