I need help writing this ARGUMENTATIVE essay for my international film class. The topic of the essay is “Indian Popular Cinema“.
Instructions: Watch one of the following films
Gully Boy (Zoya Akhtar, India, 2019) (Amazon Prime)
Kapoor & Sons (Shakun Batra, India, 2016) (Netflix and Amazon Prime, as well as for rent on iTunes, Google Play)
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (Shelly Chopra Dhar, India, 2019) (Netflix)
Prompt: As discussed in the lectures, Indian popular cinema is both a reaction to India’s globalization and a driver of it. For this assignment, you will watch a film from Bollywood’s “third phase,” though it will also be a film that has some aspirations toward “the real.” On one of the three films below, write a 5-7 page (double-spaced) paper on how the film expresses both Indian and global desires. These could be the desires of the characters, the desires of the film industry, or the desires of the nation. As appropriate, you may want to consider such topics as melodrama, realism, music, and family, as discussed in the lectures. Please use examples from the movie and cite your work!
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