In this essay, Anuradha Dev talks about some of the popular Hindi movies in recent times and analyses the storytelling in recent Hindi movies.
Last December, I was the first in line to judge the people who were part of the movie Animal, especially Sanjeev Reddy Vanga. How can a filmmaker be so irresponsible? How can he make a violent, misogynistic, and crude man a hero, a man all the young boys want to be like? I’d heard the numbers the movie was doing, and just on principle, I didn’t watch it. I didn’t want to add a number to the statistics. I know how laughable it is, but honestly, I didn’t even want to watch the movie after hearing so much noise around it. Also, I made it my mission to discourage others, especially the teenagers I had acquaintances with, from watching the movie. Not that they listened to me. After all, teenagers are infamous for doing precisely what they’re told not to do. Not their fault.