An Artist with a view PRITHVIRAJ SUKUMARAN

Prithviraj Sukumaran is no revolutionary in the garb of a filmmaker, but the nature and full wrath of the ruling establishment and make one look so. The Malayali actor-director has been experiencing just that since the release of his third directorial L2:Empuraan, starring Mohanlal, which has a 15-minute sequence of what appears to be references to the Gujarat riots of 2002 as well as criticism of central investigative agencies. The right-wing backlash has been relentless. Organiser, the RSS mouthpiece...

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എമ്പുരാനായാലും തമ്പുരാനായാലും കട്ട് വരും കട്ടായം

മോഹൻലാൽ നായകനായി അഭിനയിച്ച എൽ-2: എമ്പുരാൻ ചിത്രം ഉണ്ടാക്കിയ പുകിലും പൊല്ലാപ്പും ചില്ലറയല്ല. സമീപകാലത്ത് അഭിപ്രായ സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യത്തിനും മാധ്യമ സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യത്തിനുമെതിരെ ഉയർന്നുവന്ന വലിയ വെ...

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No jokes please, we're Indian

To call a film "brave" is a fragile compliment because it is not so much about the film itself as about the context in which the film was made and released: "hand on the primal bone/... taking the word from the stream/Fighting the sand for speech, fighting the stone", as the poet Dom Moraes said. To call a film "brave" is to demand a society where such words need not be used the act of this film being exceptional is in the hope that one day such films might be unexceptional. ...

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