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Rise of Patriotic Films

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  Any great work of art has the power to move a million or more hearts, if not mountains. Thanks to their immersive experiences, great cinematic endeavors inspire, motivate and deeply move our patriotic feelings. Such films are stimulating and real and make us genuinely interested in our motherland. These films also show us a mirror and tell us to look within before labeling others as enemies of our country. Hindi films usually suffer from sentimental over-the-top and chest-pounding scenarios. Nationalistic fervor that borders on insanity neatly classifies countries and people into good or bad, black or white, noble or noble in most films. But reality, as we know, goes beyond these watertight classifications. No country can be completely evil just because it happens to be India's warring partner. That's why realistic, honest patriotic films that highlight what's great about India while also inspiring us to think about what isn't are so rare and special. To be sure, Boll

Bollywood and Boycott Culture

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The concept of the boycott was born in Ireland, where Charles Cunningham Boycott was a British land tax collector whose despotic methods forced peasants and farmers to rise up against him in the 1880s. They abolished it and gave birth to the word boycott, which has since been used worldwide as an effective method of protest and as a collective bargaining tool. In India today, the concept of boycott is a major thorn in the side of Bollywood with 'Boycott Armies' running rampant on the triggering social media. As the film industry slowly returns to normal after being battered by COVID-19 and quarantine, dozens of films have called for boycotts. The most prominent of these was the #BoycottBrahmastra which targeted Brahmastra: Part One - Shiva, which was one of the biggest blockbusters in the industry. Ahead of the film's release on September 9, it saw an intense online campaign calling on people to boycott the film on a number of extravagant grounds, including those that claim

Drishyam 2: A Whirlwind of Mystery

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Director: Abhishek Pathak Main Cast: Ajay Devgn, Akshaye Khanna, Ishita Dutta, Tabassum Fatima Hashmi, Rajat Kapoor, Saurabh Shukla Music Director: Devi Sri Prasad Drishyam 2 is the sequel to Drishyam, which has been adapted from a Malayalam film bearing the same name. It continues the 2015 film with Vijay Salgaonkar played by Ajay Devgan emerging from a police station carrying a shovel. The almost-perfect crime committed seven years ago had a witness, which prompts the police to reopen the Sameer Deshmukh missing-case investigation so many years later. Vijay, who is now a theatre owner, dreams of making a film based on a story he has written. His family is still shaken from the incident that happened all those years ago and can be seen trying to cope with it. The support Vijay received from his community seven years ago, begins to dwindle as the plot unfolds, and they begin to question if he actually committed the crime. The film picks the pace when the police investigation led by Ins