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Sadak 2 Review: The First Film Mahesh Bhatt Has Directed in Two Decades… And it Shows

Sadak 2 is the first film that Bhatt has directed in over two decades and it shows. It is replete with the kind of 90s’ melodrama that you’d think Bollywood films would have outgrown. For a film pretending it is all about dark suspense, Sadak 2’s inconsistent tone is laughably hollow, menacing only because it refuses to end.

Poulomi Das March 29, 2016

Bollywood

How to Treat the Trans Community: A Lesson for India from Amol Palekar’s Daayraa

Back in 1996, Amol Palekar’s Daayraa, that revolved around a love story between a transvestite and a gang-raped woman, questioned sexual identities and saw trans people as a “miracle of nature”. The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, however, refuses to see the trans community in the same light.

Pranay Dewani March 19, 2016