Tag: Cinema

• “Stop interrupting me.”

  

  10 Words Every Girl Should Learn By Soraya Chemaly / alternet.org “Stop interrupting me.”  “I just said that.” “No explanation needed.” [..] “Parents interrupt girls twice as often and hold them to stricter politeness norms. Teachers engage boys, who correctly see disruptive speech as a marker of dominant masculinity, more often and more dynamically than girls.”…

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  31 Mar 2015

  Audience, Awareness, Education, Gender

  books, boy, change, children, Cinema, education, gender, growing up, mindful, teach, women

• PK after thodi si peeke

  

  Have the reviews and counter-reviews for PK died down? Because, in that case, now would be a good time to write down my thoughts about the movie. For starters: I did enjoy the film and here I will try to delve a little into why I was motivated to do so, amongst usual blog-like meanderings.…

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  24 Jan 2015

  Audience, Awareness, Bollywood, Customer Review, Film, Gender, Music, Story, Travel

  aamir khan, bollywood, change, Cinema, critics, elucidate, film, gandhi, Hindu, identity, indian, intertextual, loss, meta, movies, nature, pakistan, pk, rajkumar hirani, religion, review, thought

• Thoughts after Dabangg 2

  

  Don’t overthink it I was advised as we walked into the cinema hall. I apologise to my well-meaning friend. It is difficult to switch my brain off. However, Dabangg 2 had nothing to fear from my thinking mind. To be honest, it benefitted from me keeping those grey cells ticking. I managed to enjoy its…

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  28 Dec 2012

  Bollywood

  Cinema, Dabangg, Fevicol, Hindi, Mogambo, Pandey, Salman Khan, Vidya Balan, Vinod Khanna