Save the cinema, kill the critic: review of the film <i>Chup: Revenge of the Artist</i> (2022)

Kumar, Manoj; Sharma, Amit

doi:10.1080/01296612.2022.2136865

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“…means No (Chowdhury, 2016). Mainstream cinema is a form of commercial art that is made, distributed, and shown with the intention of making profit (Kumar, Sharma 2023). But the movie Satyaprem Ki Katha has given enough food to the mind to think about a serious but less talkedabout issue of acquaintance rape or incidents of dates ending up in sexual assaults.…”

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Exploring Mutated Depictions of Rapes and Justice Distrust in Contemporary Indian Cinema

2024

Media Education (Mediaobrazovanie)

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Media consumption includes a lot of movies. Film and culture interact in complex ways. Although art is meant to challenge established structures, mainstream Bollywood's profit-driven objective sometimes requires it to fulfil specific promises to a wide audience, minimizing disruption of traditional conceptions. A recent Indian film offers promise, though not much. They dare to raise social taboos to challenge normative beliefs. Sameer Sanjay Vidwans' Satyaprem Ki Katha and Behzad Khambata's A Thursday offer a fresh take on the topics of date rape and the failures of the system in addressing the pleas of survivors, highlighting concerns of neglect and conspiracy. This study analysed films about rape and related issues and compared them to real-life data. The study also involves an examination of how society attributes rape instances and the experiences of survivors. It asserts that the Bollywood business has just started undertaking initiatives to create a platform for discussing taboo issues that have previously been devoid of free discussion. The observation suggests that contemporary films focusing on taboo issues are grabbing larger audiences and thus achieving commercial success, in contrast to their predecessors. This also signifies a shift in contemporary culture and attitude towards rapes and related occurrences.

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Exploring Mutated Depictions of Rapes and Justice Distrust in Contemporary Indian Cinema

2024

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“…Movies are a kind of self-expression since they show various characters' perspectives. (Kumar & Sharma, 2022b). In the final hour of Drishyam-2, Vijay also goes beyond the limit to prevent his family from going to prison for a crime they executed in self-defense.…”

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