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Tamasha And The Celebration Of The Universal Story
Tamasha is the rare Bollywood film that accomplishes the feat of being “meta”, avoiding becoming a clichéd rehash of Imtiaz Ali’s earlier films.
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21 Years of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai: Rahul Khanna is a Cheater, and a Misogynist
We caught up with Rahul Khanna to find out what happened to him two decades after Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. He still insists that girls can’t play basketball.
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14 Years of How I Met Your Mother: We Need to Talk About Barney
Despite Barney Stinson’s effortless smoothness with women, he hated them. How can a womaniser hate women, you ask? If you think about it, misogyny is inextricably linked with men like Barney, because how else do you instantly reduce women to mere conquests?
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13 Years of Omkara: How a Play About Race Became a Critique of Toxic Masculinity
Thirteen years ago, Vishal Bhardwaj gave us the masterful Omkara based on Othello, the Shakespeare play about race and misogyny. The play is tailor-made for Indian sensibilities, where race turns into caste and the misogyny is dialled up several notches.
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25 Years of DDLJ: How to Be an Adarsh Hindustani Mard by Raj
An Adarsh Hindustani Mard like me gets turned on only by sanskar. Simran was Bauji’s amanat and I had to earn her, which is what I exactly did. You see, a Mard must always know how to kill two birds with one stone. Unless they’re Hindustani pigeons.
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How to Spot a Launda or Desi Frat Boy
The Desi Frat Boy has a superiority complex. He’s misogynistic, vile, and homophobic. Should we blame him for being a douchebag or our patriarchy?
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KJo, the Fairy Godmother of Every Star Child
As a proverbial star kid struggling to land five lead roles, we have only one guardian angel. He's the man who taught us that all heroes don’t wear capes – some wear Manish Malhotra suits.
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12 Years of Khosla Ka Ghosla: The Perfect Portrayal of Middle-Class India
Twelve years ago, Khosla ka Ghosla set the template for what was to become a new direction in Hindi cinema. Marked by realism, the film focused on the modest hopes of middle-class India, and how badly those hopes can get shafted.