Love, Death and Caste in Gay Romances ‘Heated Rivalry’ and ‘Cactus Pears’
Canadian series Heated Rivalry and Marathi movie Cactus Pears both center on queer love, but they explore its complexities in different migration and caste locations.
indian cinema
From ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’ to ‘Baahubali’: Whither Indian Cinema’s Secularism?
A retrospective of Manmohan Desai’s Bollywood classic Amar Akbar Anthony, and the many secular and nationalistic films it has influenced.
Trailing the Artisans of Oneiric Worlds in Anand Pandian’s ‘Reel World’
Reel World reconciles the recondite with the banal, the sublime with the quotidian, and the real with the mythological.