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The Cultural Trauma of Dhurandhar: Why ‘Arfa Khanum’ Can’t Reconcile with the New Reality
The hysterical backlash against Dhurandhar has nothing to do with “politics” or even “Pakistan-bashing.” It’s a full-blown cultural trauma for a particular generation of commentators—the ones personified by the classic ‘Arfa Khanum’ archetype. She’s not critiquing a movie. She’s mourning. Mourning the sudden, violent death of the comforting moral universe that Bollywood spent decades constructing,…
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The Two reasons why they don’t want you to watch Dhurandhar!
[Spoiler Alert – The post has spoilers from the movie. If you would like the read the review without the spoilers, here is one – Dhurandhar—The 3.5-Hour Epic That is Filling Theaters in the UK: A Non-Spoiler Review] Why has the film Dhurandhar generated such an unprecedented hue and cry? The reaction is a major cinematic…
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