The Young India

Shaival Thakkar

“India, on an average is a country which denies people the right to love. But love explodes on the screen.”

- Indian Cinema class notes, SAA, JNU

Ting ting ting ting ting ting
Ting ting ting ting ting ting

Ting ting ting ting ting ting
Ting ting ting ting ting ting

I might have missed out on some ‘ting tings’ but basically, this is the sound of Shahrukh Khan pretending to play a romantic hook on his mandolin and giving cheesy looks to …

Reema Prasanna

Hindi Cinema and Indian Politics are successful businesses that are, very wrongly, labelled as democratic. They are a mechanism for controlling the ‘majority’.

The majority of India are very simple people, characterised by a basic level of education and understood as having a basic understanding of life. Long term ‘intelligent’ choices are not inclusive to their everyday life.

This majority is presumably—at least legally—poor. Daily rations at throw-away prices; Rs. 2 per kilo. The majority buys this rice and comes back home with …

Kartikey Sehgal
The film Lagaan has a captivating screenplay. It mixes reality with fantasy and entertains while projecting the plight of the villagers.

The men of this village wear ironed clothes of different colours.
The women are healthy despite subsisting on a sukhi roti. Festivals
are celebrated with élan and the dances are passionately synchronised.
The village is happier than you would expect it to be under the economically cruel British rule.

Let’s remove fantasy from the realm of tangibility and see it as dream and imagination.