No other medium has been able to capture the Indian imagination so successfully and so frequently in capsules of less than 3-hour runtimes, than the Indian Cinema. We love our films and can't stop talking about them, but what do our films have to say about us? What image of ours shows up, when our cinema holds a mirror to us?
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No other medium has been able to capture the Indian imagination so successfully and so frequently in capsules of less than 3-hour runtimes, than the Indian Cinema. We love our films and can't stop talking about them, but what do our films have to say about us? What image of ours shows up, when our cinema holds a mirror to us?
Episode 1: Guru Dutt's Pyaasa, Sushant Singh Rajput, and the Societal Evils
We Are Our Films
28 minutes 23 seconds
5 years ago
Episode 1: Guru Dutt's Pyaasa, Sushant Singh Rajput, and the Societal Evils
What are the pertinent questions that Pyaasa consistently pokes us with? An actor's death brings out the twisted side of our society, and those questions stay afloat even after 63 years. Except, nobody wants to answer them.
We Are Our Films
No other medium has been able to capture the Indian imagination so successfully and so frequently in capsules of less than 3-hour runtimes, than the Indian Cinema. We love our films and can't stop talking about them, but what do our films have to say about us? What image of ours shows up, when our cinema holds a mirror to us?
