Masculinity is tropical to false aggression, conservative conformity, and defiance to unconventionality in its comparatively nontoxic veil. Toxic masculinity is the aggravation of all the aforementioned along with an urge for violence…
Tag: Dibakar Banerjee
Bollywood is still not done with the masala films, but an audience can always choose. I took an oath to stay away from cinematic thrash this year. While there where occasional let-downs: R. Balki’s Shamitabh & Anurag Kashyap’s Bombay Velvet to name a few, there where some really surprising films like Harshavardhan G. Kulkarni’s Hunterrr & Neeraj Pandey’s Baby. But Unlike last year, 2015’s mid-list had a lot of gems and the later part of the year mostly was cold, except three films in the list that follows:
Most movie-going audiences view cinema as a means of escapism from a monotonous lifestyle. But there is an anti-thesis to this larger than life, feel-good category of films. It’s the quintessential dark…
Titli is not a story of a dysfunctional family, because calling these set of ruthless people dysfunctional will be an understatement. But even in this relentlessly downbeat tale of ghastly inane characters there is a coming-of-age film that’s just looking for proper wings to fly away from the gun & the hammer. The title character Titli is not a butterfly because not even in it’s lightest moments you see any glimmer of beauty. But he is a spider who is hanging by a very thin thread of lies, betrayal and double-cross, and yet he is trying hard, not fall off.