India’s Oscar Entry: Once Again, a Film I Have Never Heard Of

It’s not nearly as egregious as choosing Jeans (seriously, what were they thinking?) or choosing nothing the year Pinjar and Tehzeeb and Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon came out, but it’s still got that little tinge of “wait, what?” which always comes with these announcements.

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Aligarh First Trailer: All about Section 377; Also, Karan, What’s Happening Here?

Karan Johar tweeted a link (restricted link, so I can’t embed it, but you can find it through the Times of India here) to the first trailer to Aligarh this morning.  It looks like a great movie, but the trailer, and the fact that Karan tweeted it, raise some interesting questions.  Related both to Indian film and Indian society.

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