Billboard Bacchanalia

Mainstream cinema sates our appetite for moral certitudes and linguistic surfeit

(Freelance film critic Maithili Rao is on the editorial board of South Asian Cinema, a London-based quarterly, and has contributed chapters to the forthcoming Bollywood (published by Dakini, London), Frames of Mind (iccr, edited by Aruna Vasudev) and Rasa (edited by Chidananda Dasgupta).)