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Falling in love with your favorite characters!
I was just randomly browsing over my YouTube feed when I got a recommendation for scenes from an old show – Left Right Left. Wait. Before we go ahead… a fair word of caution! In the below paragraphs, we are going to discuss a lot of characters from several shows. If you know Left Right Left, you would know most of the other shows. There are some English series too. But no worries. We will just discuss characters and nothing about the story. Left Right Left is a pretty complex show. I would not be able to tell you much about it even if I wanted to. But what I…
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Bollywood vs Indian Television
I heard a quotation a long while ago – The main distinction between portrayal of masculine and feminine characters over the two platforms is quite opposite in nature – In Television, we idolize the feminine characters while fantasizing the masculine characters. Whereas in Bollywood, we idolize the masculine characters and fantasize the feminine characters. It has been literally several years ever since I heard this for the very first time… and all along this quote – this stark difference, has stuck with me and I have been consciously or sub-consciously analyzing all the shows or movies that I watch to find examples to refute this. Now, I do not say…