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We Are Our Films

by Manu Pratap Singh

No other medium has been able to capture the Indian imagination so successfully and so frequently in capsules of less than 3-hour runtimes, than the Indian Cinema. We love our films and can't stop talking about them, but what do our films have to say about us? What image of ours shows up, when our cinema holds a mirror to us?

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Episodes

  1. Episode 3: 'Gamak Ghar' and Tracing Identity through Lost Roots

    The ancestral home is a marker of the continuum of one's lineage and ethnic identity, and a witness to countless stories. But when our individual aspirations outgrow our familial stability, the home becomes a limiter, a physical space that holds us back. And then it either has to upgrade itself...

  2. Episode 2: Indian Matchmaking

    A webseries filled the social media landscape with criticism, trolls and memes. But what does this choice of response tell us about ourselves and our attitudes and behaviours as an audience?

  3. Episode 1: Guru Dutt's Pyaasa, Sushant Singh Rajput, and the Societal Evils

    What are the pertinent questions that Pyaasa consistently pokes us with? An actor's death brings out the twisted side of our society, and those questions stay afloat even after 63 years. Except, nobody wants to answer them.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

No other medium has been able to capture the Indian imagination so successfully and so frequently in capsules of less than 3-hour runtimes, than the Indian Cinema. We love our films and can't stop talking about them, but what do our films have to say about us? What image of ours shows up, when our cinema holds a mirror to us?

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Manu Pratap Singh

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No other medium has been able to capture the Indian imagination so successfully and so frequently in capsules of less than 3-hour runtimes, than the Indian Cinema. We love our films and can't stop talking about them, but what do our films have to say about us? What image of ours shows up, when our...

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