Shah Rukh Khan
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DUNKI (Dir. Rajkumar Hirani, 2023, India) – Home & Away
* * Many contemporary mainstream Hindi films fall short in comparison to their big budget South Indian counterparts. While the latter exhibit technical prowess, such films have regrettably started to trade in a troubling blend of toxic hyper-masculinity and nationalist jingoism. It’s likely that you’re acquainted with the specific films I am alluding to. In Continue reading
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JAB TAK HAI JAAN / AS LONG AS THERE IS LIFE (Dir. Yash Chopra, 2012, India) – Footnotes
Hindi cinema of late has unfortunately bypassed me and I have successively missed many of the major releases. I think it is a seemingly impossible enterprise to keep on top of the many Hindi films released each year but I’m trying to catch up with some of the more populist films that made it to Continue reading
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MY NAME IS KHAN (Dir. Karan Johar, 2010, India) – The Unapologetic Muslim
The all too familiar concept known as the suspension of disbelief is far greater in the mainstream Indian melodrama than it is in most Hollywood films and when it comes to a film by Karan Johar it moves beyond the hyperbole and into a realm of cathartic Continue reading
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