Lights, Camera, Conversation… The Genre of Myth

Our fantastical stories are rooted in the fantasies of our myths. That’s perhaps why, with increasingly deracinating westernisation, we’ve learnt to mock the masala movie. “Why are you watching Jyoti Bane Jwala?” my conscious mind cries out, with the futility of the hero’s sister’s appeal in a 1970s potboiler to an advancing Ranjeet. But there … Continue reading Lights, Camera, Conversation… The Genre of Myth