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M K Raghavendra
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How cinema simplifies complex politics
Regardless of what election rhetoric one subscribes to, today, one can hardly see either side as representing good and evil, or even patriotic and anti-national.
20 April 2024, 00:12 IST
How cinema simplifies complex politics
20 April 2024, 00:12 IST
Why ‘The Zone of Interest’ is insipid fiction
The Holocaust drama won an Oscar last week. M K Raghavendra looks at the challenges of fictionalising persecution.
16 March 2024, 02:53 IST
Why ‘The Zone of Interest’ is insipid fiction
16 March 2024, 02:53 IST
What do Vijay’s films say about his politics?
Vijay (Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar) is Christian by birth and in two of his recent films ('Master', 'Bigil') he played Christian roles.
16 February 2024, 23:31 IST
What do Vijay’s films say about his politics?
16 February 2024, 23:31 IST
Looking at political biopics
Ahead of the release of a film on A B Vajpayee, M K Raghavendra looks at the problems in the genre.
12 January 2024, 23:38 IST
Looking at political biopics
12 January 2024, 23:38 IST
Puttanna Kanagal and the caste perspective
Puttanna’s films denote only ‘middle-class’ milieus and ‘Brahmin’ has to read into them by noting the connections.
01 December 2023, 23:24 IST
Puttanna Kanagal and the caste perspective
01 December 2023, 23:24 IST
Kannada cinema and the question of identity
The hegemony within the linguistic state was even more extreme in Telugu cinema where Telangana Telugu was mocked. In Kannada cinema there is an unequal treatment of Mysoreans and Kannadigas from outside.
04 November 2023, 04:04 IST
Kannada cinema and the question of identity
04 November 2023, 04:04 IST
Caste and the idea of ‘coming out’
The author looks at the many implications of using the term ‘coming out’ to reveal caste identity.
20 October 2023, 18:15 IST
Caste and the idea of ‘coming out’
20 October 2023, 18:15 IST
Gandhi obscured
While cinema normally interprets the past through historical narratives, in most Indian ‘historical’ films we find instruction that history is only an instance of timeless myth.
29 September 2023, 18:26 IST
Gandhi obscured
29 September 2023, 18:26 IST
Oppenheimer and the objectification of genius
The film finds it difficult to identify a point of focus and so hits on the fission scientist’s genius as the solution
28 July 2023, 19:07 IST
Oppenheimer and the objectification of genius
28 July 2023, 19:07 IST
Why sex crimes are portrayed as karma
Films like ‘Pink’ reflect a peculiarly Indian attitude towards sex crimes
07 July 2023, 20:21 IST
Why sex crimes are portrayed as karma
07 July 2023, 20:21 IST
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