London Indian Film Festival

Has 'I Want to F**k You' Replaced, 'I Love You?'

Laxmi Hariharan | Posted 07.09.2012 | UK Entertainment
Laxmi Hariharan

"I am haunted by the genitalia I saw on screen," my young teenage friend was referring to the full on fellatio scene in Gandu a Bengali indie film dir...

Beyond the Four Letter Word: Indian Indie Cinema

Laxmi Hariharan | Posted 25.08.2012 | UK Entertainment
Laxmi Hariharan

As Tannishtha Chatterjee (Brick Lane, 2007) bemoans, "In mainstream Bollywood films, women are but objects of sex." In contrast she plays the feisty, outspoken, female lead in Dekh Indian Circus which also showed at the festival.