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     Shikari Pilla Bewarse Username: Shikari Post Number: 41 Registered: 04-2017 Posted From: 124.123.213.108 Rating: N/A |
"I too was caught up in the flowing tide and walked into a theatre full of families posing for selfies, grabbing popcorn by the tubs and justifiably proud that this was a Telugu phenomenon. They were not watching a movie or standing up for the national anthem; they were doing it for the Telugu nation, a synthesis that went beyond the AP-Telangana split. Baahubali was not a mythical king with shimmering six packs but merely a man who could well be the CM of a unified Andhra in the future. Baahubali 2 is perhaps the worst thing to have happened to Indian films. At a time when we were seeing a small but growing renaissance of cinema in many languages, along comes a film that has cynically played on the gullibility of spectators, myself included, proving once and for all that in India a film is nothing but an advertising campaign. Those who support such films in the name of the non-urban, or of the ‘local’, do a great disfavour to these constituencies. The film panders to feudal worship, a topic that continues to have a horrible history in Andhra." http://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/the-bali-of-cinema/article18437467. ece  |