(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).)
Billboard Bacchanalia
Mainstream cinema sates our appetite for moral certitudes and linguistic surfeit
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