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NCPCR writes to Maharashtra addl home secretary, seeks FIR against makers of Netflix s Bombay Begums
Apex child rights body NCPCR has written to the Maharashtra home secretary seeking registration of an FIR against the makers of Netflix series Bombay Begums over the alleged inappropriate portrayal of children.
NCPCR writes to Maharashtra addl home secretary, seeks FIR against makers of Netflix s Bombay Begums
Apex child rights body NCPCR has written to the Maharashtra home secretary seeking registration of an FIR against the makers of Netflix series Bombay Begums over the alleged inappropriate portrayal of children.
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights also sought an action taken report from the Maharashtra police commissioner in the matter within three days.
Chaitanya Tamhaneâs The Disciple is a Journey of Uncharted Dissonance
The Marathi film on the inner worlds of Hindustani classical music unfurls like a vilambit khyal set in Brahminical patriarchy.
A still from the movie The Disciple . Photo courtesy: Netflix
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Once an idea has been fully expressed, donât stretch it further. You are falling short in your riyaaz.â
âBut all Iâm doing is practising for hours and hours…â
âYour perspective is lacking. Itâs all scattered. Itâs all jumbled up. The music has no life in it.â
This is a brief dialogue between a teacher and his pupil.
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Bollywood loves its stereotypes. For decades, it has put mothers on a pedestal, clad them in white sarees, and whitewashed their character. In our cinema, a mother has been the picture of sacrifice a martyr who fuels the dreams of her children with the kindling of her own unfulfilled ones and the zenith of chastity and virtue. In formulaic films of the past, she was often evoked when the hero’s conscience needed some polishing or was wielded out as a weapon if the protagonist was veering dangerously close to the grey area of villainy. But over time, in tandem with society, the Hindi film industry, too, has allowed its mothers to come of age. The celluloid maa is no longer sentenced to a life of domesticity; she has dusted off years of typecasting and is raring to go. Be it balancing a career along with the household or playing a friend to her homosexual son, discussing her desires, or powering through a geriatric pregnancy she is exploring every facet of a mothe
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Respected Sir/Madam,
We are in receipt of your email dated March 11, 2021 whereby you had shared the Letter raising a concern about our series titled “Bombay Begums” (“
Series“) and more particularly about 2 (two) scenes where one teenage girl is seen drinking alcohol and taking drugs in a party she attends for her school friend and where another girl is seen taking pictures of herself at school to send to a guy (“
Scenes“). From the Letter sent by you, we understand that you have received complaints from the Twitter accounts of one Ms. Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj and Gems of Bollywood on the Scenes of the Series. We would like to state the following:
Lady love: Digital space explores lesbianism
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Mumbai, April 6 : Same-sex love stories with male protagonists, although rare, have still been explored on the Hindi screen, but lesbianism is relatively rarer. The rise of OTT culture has created a platform to explore a variety of subjects. Lesbianism, a taboo word in India, is finding space, too, over the recent past.
Moving away from formula-driven content, the digital space has been intrepid in narrating stories where a woman would express love to another woman uninhibitedly.
There are quite a few projects that have come up spotlighting lesbian love. IANS lists some of these: