We Are Our Films

Manu Pratap Singh
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No other medium has been able to capture the Indian imagination so successfully and so frequently in capsules of less than 3-hour runtimes, than the Indian Cinema. We love our films and can't stop talking about them, but what do our films have to say about us? What image of ours shows up, when our cinema holds a mirror to us?

Episodes

  1. 08/22/2020

    Episode 3: 'Gamak Ghar' and Tracing Identity through Lost Roots

    The ancestral home is a marker of the continuum of one's lineage and ethnic identity, and a witness to countless stories. But when our individual aspirations outgrow our familial stability, the home becomes a limiter, a physical space that holds us back. And then it either has to upgrade itself matching with our upward mobility, or has to sadly perish.  Achal Mishra's Gamak Ghar is a gorgeous little film that puts the forgotten ancestral home at the center.

    26 min

  2. 08/06/2020

    Episode 2: Indian Matchmaking

    A webseries filled the social media landscape with criticism, trolls and memes. But what does this choice of response tell us about ourselves and our attitudes and behaviours as an audience?

    18 min

  3. 07/25/2020

    Episode 1: Guru Dutt's Pyaasa, Sushant Singh Rajput, and the Societal Evils

    What are the pertinent questions that Pyaasa consistently pokes us with? An actor's death brings out the twisted side of our society, and those questions stay afloat even after 63 years. Except, nobody wants to answer them.

    28 min
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No other medium has been able to capture the Indian imagination so successfully and so frequently in capsules of less than 3-hour runtimes, than the Indian Cinema. We love our films and can't stop talking about them, but what do our films have to say about us? What image of ours shows up, when our cinema holds a mirror to us?

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  • Creator
    Manu Pratap Singh
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    3
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Manu Pratap Singh
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