A fairytale is a powerful tool to shape a child’s worldview. So perhaps it is about time the world created (and re-create) stories that would help them be ready for a world they are responsible for building.
Soorarai Pottru: An Important Story To Tell
Soorarai Pottru is a story well told and deserves a watch by a wider audience. Perhaps in schools and colleges and in communities of self-employed entrepreneurs of all kinds. It is always good to see a reminder that it is essential to dream big and that each small step towards that big dream makes a difference.
Alankrita Shrivastav Reimagines Feminist Films In Dolly, Kitty, Aur Chamakte Sitare:
Dolly Kitty Aur Chamakte Taare received tepid reviews in the mainstream media. However, for a wayward viewer like me, the film was reminiscent of the eloquent lives of women I know. People whose stories are not speckled with grandeur, but are of inadvertence. Women who are making space for themselves inch by inch. Like my mother, my aunt, a schoolfriend from my hometown. Lives into which I only have a voyeuristic lens. Stories not of grand struggles, or taking feminist stands, but of omniscient living, any act of desire is transgression.