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Shadow Kill

Posted on 4 yrs ago
Nizhalkuthu is also a film about sexuality and the body. While society represses budding female sexuality (Mallika is not allowed to go to school after she comes of age), it does not seem to actively control violent male desire that wrecks havoc. The fuzzy borderline that separates love from lust resembles that between life and death....
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Why is <i>Lagaan</i> a Landmark Movie?

Posted on 6 yrs ago
Indeed Lagaan picks up the thread from the inimitable master Satyajit Ray himself as regards the use of games as a metaphor for cross-cultural power negotiations. If in Shatranj Ke Khiladi, it is the British who change the rules of the Indian game, in Lagaan it is the Indians who learn to beat the British at their own game
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