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The Stereotyping of Indian poverty in World Cinema, a false representation: PART II

…Continued from PART-1 The Mira Nair 1988 film, Salaam Bombay portrays the city Bombay as a stunning paradox, which it really is, highlighting the particularities if that place and that time. Here in Bombay, the unforgiving city, people flow…

Opinion

The Stereotyping of Indian poverty in World Cinema, a false representation: PART I

There’s a huge modern urban mythology because of the global mainstreaming of misinformation about India and its cultures, where Indian poor are mere abstractions that follows a nuanced approach to their treatment in cinema. We try to catch the continuing…