Finding screen space for Dalit-Bahujan cinema
‘Popular cinema hardly represents the aspirations and values of the Dalit-Bahujan social groups’ | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto In 2022, the box-office debacle of big-budget populist Hindi films (Cirkus, Laal Singh Chaddha, Dhaakad and Samrat Prithviraj) offers a clue that cinemagoers are rejecting the ‘masala-clad’ mindless cinema and are looking for newness and artistic calibre. […]
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