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‘Teen Kanya’: The Mature Sharmila Persona in Satyajit Ray’s Films:
The essay looks at the roles played by Sharmila Tagore in Nayak, Aranyer Din Ratri and Seemabaddha, which appear similarly drawn. The roles are generally taken to represent the ‘strong woman’ but the three women are not strong individuals with desires and trajectories of their own. They are, rather, moral ideals engaged in reforming weak men. The essay looks at the provenance of this representation and comes up with interesting results.
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Mrinal Sen and the Failure of the Indian Art film:
After Satyajit Ray the Indian art-house film has not made the mark it should have and Ray remained an exception. This essay examines art cinema through key works by the late Mrinal Sen and tries to accountfor the failure of Indian art cinema as a larger category.
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The Ageing Diva in Bollywood: The Construction of Rekha:
The essay looks at how the image of an ageing female star is constructed in Indian popular cinema and the media through the example of Rekha.
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The Dismemberment of Collective Life: Three Films by Vadim Abdrashitov:
Vadim Abdrashitov is not well-known in India and has not been widely written about outside Russia but he represents the most profound cinematic response to the notion of collective life in the former Soviet Union. This essay looks at three of his key films and tries to understand what ‘collective life’ meant, how the collapse of the USSR destroyed it - as interpreted by a great artist.
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Censorship and Democracy: An Examination of two Documentary Films: India’s Daughter and Muzaffarnagar Baqi Hai:
This is a polemical piece that pleads for freedom of expression and an end to (official/informal) censorship on political grounds. It is followed by an editorial intervention examining one of the documentaries, Leslie Udwin’s India’s daughter, also reflecting on and why it might have been censored.
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The Theologians by Jorge Luis Borges:
Borges is a writer who has greatly influenced Phalanx. This is a translation of a noted story by him.
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