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Media & Pop Culture

‘Haraamkhor’: The Wretched And Windmills That Saw It All

‘Haraamkhor’: The Wretched And Windmills That Saw It All Haraamkhor is a one-of-a-kind movie where even one mistake could have changed the movie for the worse. It explores the taboo around sexual relationships between a teacher and an underage student who did not look good to the Censor Board and could get a green signal

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An Ode To Middle-Class Dreams: ‘Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitaare’

An Ode To Middle-Class Dreams: ‘Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitaare’ Long gone are the days when media would use objects such as swans and flowers to represent sexual advances allegorically. Bollywood and mainstream media have always been rather thorny about addressing subject matter relating to women’s needs and fighting against the patriarchal we have

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Promoting The Freedom To Bind: Women And Narrative Entrapment In ‘Bombay Begums’

Promoting The Freedom To Bind: Women And Narrative Entrapment In ‘Bombay Begums’ This article contains spoilers! As Bollywood uses snippets from reality to portray honest accounts of sexuality, stigma, and spatial changes, on-screen representation of femininity in India’s entertainment industry easily becomes a scale for measuring women’s acceptability in the real world. With the recent release

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How Prosperous Is ‘Laxmii’ Movie Narrative For The Transgender People?

How Prosperous Is ‘Laxmii’ Movie Narrative For The Transgender People? The world of media can provide space for different representations. It provides opportunities for different narratives to come-in and makes themselves heard, through their media story. However, for the same, there are a series of sanctions that a particular narrative has to acquire. It has

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