This is not Bollywood

This is not Bollywood

This is not Bollywood

Has been seen and not seen.In 2018, Netflix premiered its first series shot in India, Sacred Games, a starting signal for audiovisual productions never before imaginable in the Asian subcontinent.The platforms took advantage of a regulatory vacuum: unlike cinema and television, rigorously controlled, there was no legislation planned for streaming.In a three -year thing, audiovisual fictions have sprouted that explore the holes in the torrential offer of Bollywood: police brutality, the class system, conflicts between castes, religious tensions, the casual use of drugs, explicit sex (heteroor LGBTI), the political rot of the greatest democracy in the world.

He could not last, when the country is chaired by a poisonous nationalist, Narendra Modi.Since this year, streaming is subject to a range of moral classifications, as well as threatened by the perspective of criminal proceedings for those who offend "national sensitivity".Without forgetting the very real intimidation of mobs, which - tested by the movement that plays modi - can sabotage filming, boycott companies and very worse actions.

However, there was an "Indian summer", a summer of creativity when filmmakers, screenwriters, actors, technicians could make other stories, far from managers with scissors.In many cases, they resorted to the fertile local novelists, whose works were considered too complex for Bollywood cinema.Thus, Sacred Games starts from sacred games (Random House Literature), Vikram Chandra's book whose cosmogony some confuse with fantastic realism (in any case, more than Pynchon than García Márquez).An immersion in a bombay that oscillates between the sordid and the hallucinatory.

What was going to.They will not find these series on the start screen of the platforms: you have to look for them.But dozens are available in the recesses of Netflix or Prime Video catalogs, including unsuspected jewels.They are easily recognized by their saturated colors, actors who tend to overact, those script turns presented as coincidences and, above all, the naturalness with which their characters jump from the Hindi to an emphatic English.Notice that usually require an extra effort: they do not have dubbing and sometimes you have to read the English subtitles.

Esto no es Bollywood

But not better complain.They place you in a kind of parallel universe, with mutations of perfectly recognizable television genres: the predictable - worthy politicians forced to deliver its plate and its gun - mixes with disconcerting moments, such as the corpulent hero fleeing terrified of the bodyguard of the bodyguard of a bad bad.This occurs in Paatal Lok (Prime), where that mature agent of DelEternal opponent, Pakistan.His trips to Chitrakot, an impoverished rural district, reveal that there is no such thing as union solidarity in land dominated by an invisible bandit.

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Indian series require frequent use of the rewind button.And maximum attention to capture those nuances that reveal religious affiliations or belonging to a caste of untouchables.The country can be a power in computer talent, the Indian digital of government advertising, but it is still killed with hammers or artisanal guns made with car drainage material (a manufacturing explained in Mirzapur, in Prime).And ancestral ritual disgusting ones are practiced, such as the group's group rape of an enemy.

One cannot relax even in fact in heaven (prime), a romantic drama around a company dedicated to the organization of splendorous weddings for the middle and high class of Delhi.Here is very present the aesthetics Bollywood in choreographies, songs, clothing, decoration.While the characters take stripes or argue with the DJ for the music that clicks, disturbing sub -sections are developed that exemplary general hypocrisy, greed, impunity of the powerful, the practice of torture in the police stations, the persistence of superstitions even evenAmong cosmopolitan people.

There are reasonable doubts about how much of this iconoclast.Thus, Prime Video has resigned to shoot the second season of Paatal Lok, despite his enormous success and the fact that his showrunners had left enough loose ends.But the human and professional relationship between the protagonist, a scarcely devout Hinduist, and his Muslim assistant, approached a taboo area for the inflamed followers of Modi.Take the opportunity to enjoy the fruits of a few years in which the prohibitions were ignored.

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