Plus: Reviews of ‘Deva’, ‘Queer’ and ‘The Girl with the Needle’. Here are this week's top stories from The Reel
Indira Gandhi, India’s first and only female prime minister, was often only seen as a photograph or portrait at a government office in films. Now she’s everywhere, with Kangana Ranaut’s Emergency being the latest sighting.
Has it really been half a century since Yash Chopra’s Deewar, written by Salim-Javed and starring Amitabh Bachchan?
While we celebrate Deewar once again, let’s not forget its non-Hindi brothers.
In an essay on Bollywood and soft power, academic Swapnil Rai argues that certain movie actors have “star switching power”, which helps them “exceed the confines of their networks and create connections where none existed before, allowing them to create inroads into new markets for Hindi film in diverse regions ranging from Azerbaijan to Germany”.
Here's what the week’s releases looked like.
Shahid Kapoor is on fire in a cold and unfeeling thriller:
Daniel Craig was inexplicably overlooked for a career-best performance in Queer:
An Indian American family battles zombies and more:
The Oscar-nominated The Girl with the Needle is a film about abortion and adoption that you didn’t quite expect:
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