Bollywood
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FlyDie, Volume Two
Nineteen more FlyDie comments across six threads: the three pillars of caste, what the Mughals took from the land, how the Rig Veda got written, Kerala’s three-cornered trade, and Bollywood…
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The Lutyens Brahmin & the Indian Muslim
X.T.M borrows the Boston Brahmin to describe India’s apex elite, admitted by assimilation, presentation and marriage, and asks whether the new Hindu order’s explicit loyalty tests for Indian Muslims expose…
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Open Thread: Bharat wins at Norway Chess, but something is off with Bollywood
Praggnanandhaa’s victory at Norway Chess is another reminder that India, and particularly the South, is producing world-class talent at a remarkable rate. That success prompted a broader reflection on another…
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Dhurandhar, Netflix and the India-Pakistan Asymmetry
The post asks why Netflix serves India so much more than Pakistan, as Pakistani viewers complain about promotion of Dhurandhar: The Revenge. It answers with market size, Indian users far…
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India-Pakistan pop culture and future trends
The author argues that discussions of India-Pakistan pop culture miss the rise of Indian streaming platforms, whose shorter, less censored and more experimental shows now supply more memes than films…
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Dhurandhar releasing in Japan
On Dhurandhar’s release in Japan, the author notes the appeal of Japanese film posters and Indian cinema’s push for global audiences, and argues that as Bollywood grows, foreign perceptions of…
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India and Pakistan Are Playing Chicken; simply to hurt themselves
Two nuclear states with shared languages, shared music, and shared families are accelerating away from each other, each waiting for the other to swerve. Neither is. Both are losing. A…
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Ranbir as Lord Ram: The Indus Paradox
The man cast as Maryada Purushottam, the ideal Hindu man, the conscience-keeper of a civilisation, descends from Prithviraj Kapoor of Peshawar; a Hindu Pathan (his kinsman Anil Kapoor states on…
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Dhurandhar, Politics of Bollywood & India Pakistan
Nachiketa answers X.T.M’s criticism of Dhurandhar. He sees the two parts as one seven-hour film, finds the villains humanised and the film not anti-Islam, and argues India need not fear…
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Dhurandhar 2: When the Villain Disappears, So Does the Film
X.T.M reviews Dhurandhar 2 and finds it hollow: with the villain gone, the Pakistani Muslim becomes simply a target. The review says the film educates audiences to hate and only…
