At a Time of Gory Hyper-Nationalistic Blockbusters Like ‘Dhurandhar’, There are Smaller, Well-Made Films That Get Ignored

At a Time of Gory Hyper-Nationalistic Blockbusters Like ‘Dhurandhar’, There are Smaller, Well-Made Films That Get Ignored

In a dystopian star-led Bollywood, the onus is on audiences to nurture inventive ambition. Few issues infuriate me about Hindi movie business parlance greater than a movie being known as “high-concept”. It’s a patronising, pitiable means of calling one thing displaying the slightest hints of ambition — and subsequently, short-hand for ‘destined to fail’ or…

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