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it doesn't work any more leg back. that's what art can do. new to shift things around with, with created in india's cultural scene or breaking new ground. we take a look at bollywood cliches exploring what lies beyond the stereotype. and we need an indian photographer curator moving portrait of society. but 1st, an artist collective that isn't a break to shake things up. bangalore, this metropolis of 8000000 people in southern india is home to act as shiva, pontac, and theater director. ne robin drama, as sandbox collective, but you are, has been enriching india's independent art st. since 23rd change. ah,

we are hottest stern arts administrators. we are not arts administrators alone. and that also brings in a different kind of perspective. we've done what, what we needed the infrastructure that we didn't have. we wanted it for ourselves. and if it ends up benefiting the larger vehicles failure, then that that's great as well. the collected strives to provide a platform for all those representing feminist, queer and marginalized positions, sheba pontac, and me robin drawn a very well connected with anglos cultural scene. they know what they can give the city and what the city kingdom to them. there are hundreds of theatre. company is musicians. all that comes out of bangle. it's a, it's a, it's a testing ground. you know, things are possible in bangalore delhi is that place that, that kind of pushes you to do very big things. but our world also needs very small things, those things on the margins. so i think for something like that, bangladesh, great, the gender, bender, festival,

has developed around these margins. it offers grants and a safe space for artists to present works on gender, sexuality and identity. this event is unique in asia and has been running successfully since 2015. we were shocked because the 1st call went out and we thought we'd probably get like 10 applications and we got 70 odd application. and then we realized that there were so many artists were actually working around the teams of gender, descended t k, the gender been de festival served as a kind of incubator. his photography about queer dream world was well received at home and i wonder, he saw a very important turning point in my life. as an artist, everybody goes to that trustee will and be blocked today as a boardwalk and his artist a showing or so give or do i owe 3 are practitioners. those are for them, or even i'm starting out for me. it is something to look up. okay. that is

something i can play for and i can show my work too other people to, to the capital daily. now, when you me robin drawn is buying flowers for the band dust damn life. although sandbox collected had no previous experience with music projects. the bad news wanted to g o is produces the musicians valued the political viewpoints, activism and intensive collaboration, that sandals collective stands for the 10 member band rights protest, songs with lyrics that often quote, indian poets. one such quote and dust and live a complaint from hindu nationalist forces a few years ago, which resulted in the temporary arrest of the band and sandbox collective. they eventually won the legal battle, and the whole ordeal ended up deepening the bond between the artists and produces

which stood with those leg rashid, even the gobs were letting them live in all you only were honest though the performers they knew as were naughty, went on stage where you ignore you like the movie meal. so that's why for me darts died. mormon just gave me the answer to why sidewalks. it's not just more producing ard, so it's more believing in the power of arts and these guys, the doors and resort. and dad died, give us courage to, you know, the work, the order. choreographer mandy bry keith also lives in delhi. his piece queen size is a statement on intimacy between 2 men. gay sex was only recently decriminalized in india. sandbox collective finds interesting alternative venues to present the dance piece. ah, we never really had a reaction that does sir,

it the performance we could see people sometimes leave. sometimes in the middle of the segment. europe was no different. there were people who are equally uncomfortable. we saw people who couldn't look at the bodies directly, they had to look at the floor, people at the same everywhere. people also have the capacity to transform as they look the produce that you owe generally prefers working behind the scenes rather than standing in the spotlight. their goal is to bring people together and build sustainable structures. we tend to form long term relationships with people in our city, in our country and elsewhere in the world. yeah. so that's, that's something that has happened very organically. at sandbox. now i would say the word for it i think is mostly i know the sense of cross pollination and growth collaboration that happens a lot threw up logic back in bangalore. numerous been run and chiva pontac are organizing a reading series on the gentrification of their city. one of the many controversial

topics in india to day the more adverse the challenges, the more active sandbox collective becomes. as artist, we always found that we were struggling. there's always that establishment that makes it difficult for artist. so now that we are here, we go all the way and what do we want to see? we want to see a place, a world where, where we are free, where artists can express themselves without fear of who's going to get arrested for, for what you see. sing dawns that the world that we want. we want a world that is more equal. a world that is inclusive, a well that's more compassionate. sandbox collective receives, this is good to middle for their courage and ambitions. and now to what is perhaps india's most famous cultural exports. the bollywood film has the heyday of day cinema come and gone larger than life

heroes. sweeping dance numbers. i counting set designs, music, action, drama. this is bollywood, one of the most influential film industries in the world, in terms of tickets sold and enduring appeal. screaming fans, mob bollywood stores across india and in many parts of the world. but despite its social appeal, why are the very people that were its biggest fan, seemingly asking the same question? let's find out if there is any truth to it. why is bollywood losing its spark? let's get the basics out of the way. all bollywood films are indian films, but most indian films are not bollywood. ha. so what exactly is bollywood? is this bollywood? ah, is this bollywood?

or how about this? none of those were bollywood films. pain blue paper, jenna volleyball, da zoom. basically, it's a long way from bombing from industry mo, mo, from industry and avi. how all the work that is produced and the hindu language can be called bollywood. i was a volume in bombay is the former name of india's largest metropolis now called mom by the vibrant city is the birthplace of bollywood and indian cinema mama has grown to one of the most prolific centers of film production in the world shot in these large studios just outside the city. bollywood flicks with their massive production designs. big star cast, and spectacular performances. draw people to the screens. despite the huge popularity. bollywood is still mistakenly acquainted with the indian film making industry. but it's just the name for the countries, hindi film industry. indian filmmakers produce the most films outside of bollywood

film clips. you just saw have not been shot in bombay film studios. nor are they being produced in hindi. there ascribed to india's other big film industries. where each language industry carries its own distinctive name, such as tale would for the to lu, go film, industry hollywood for to meal films or sandlewood 4 films produced in canada. and it is that fierce competition that is forcing bollywood out of the limelight. but before getting into the reason why some se bollywood is a sinking ship. let's go back in time. cinema came early to india. the lumiere brothers landed in one by or bombay, as it was known, then in 1896 to screen films for the 1st time. film consumption spread far quicker

than literacy in a country impoverished by 2 centuries of colonial rule. just like the city itself, balmy's film industry was a melting pot of influences that ranged from german filmmakers escaping the nazis who brought technical know how with them to indian mythology, with its plots and theatrics, as well as india's long tradition of poetry and music. ah, there was even in australian stunts superstar fearless nadia. so a bit of everything. but there were also powerful critics. ah, i've never been to a cinema, but even to an outsider, the evil that it has done and is doing is peace and the good if it has done any, it all remains to be proved. but even high profile critics like him couldn't stop bollywood reaching new heights, just like hollywood indian cinema and bollywood in particular found it's great success through its big stars. and often they would even resemble american film

stars, inspired by chaplin's tramp character, raj, kapoor, me social realism with prominent nor ruffian. ideals, of course, under laid with a catchy musical tune, ah, head up on the bug known. if the newsletter like old will be paid had been done, he and his films found fans everywhere from the u. s. s. r. to be hard to peshawar . bollywood even had its own elvis presley in shameeka poor. the super energetic actor, show the audience, how to dance, and love are. celebrities are a big part of the movie industry and indian cinema has produced many superstars who power its productions. hollywood means film stars. the star system dot stars. oh, stories that are extravagant. stories that bird that don't relate to

a life, but make people say, oh my god, such things happen in the world. in 1975, india, when it's 1st hockey world cub, sent its 1st satellite into orbit and entered a state of emergency imposed by prime minister indira gandhi. and yet for many it's just the year chalet, the greatest masala film of all time, hit the screen. a milestone in bollywood history. the term masala literally means mixture of spices. because the 204 minute action adventure film has all the spices, but lead actor to mentor. i can tell you himself which ones are this is tony may missouri the beer? oh, other ingredients in no particular order include a self righteous hero who defies the law of physics. a vicious villain.

the heroes beautiful damsel in distress, and some memorable quotes. my son ben, got back. i found them up thought, oh, and a theme song with an overly sexualized girl, dancing for no apparent reason. all in all a great blend of genres, action, drama, romance and comedy. bollywood had found its recipe for success and it went global. although for some, the masala mixture can be quite difficult to endure. to soon seconds when give uni can be a bit unexpected for us when a film starts as a comedy or action film below. and then ends as a drama or a thriller if in this time i find that they have a bad reputation, which is undeserved. you just need an open mind when mom was tough, i lawson up. this is jaqueline. in the ninety's, the heroes were no longer fighting the establishment. they were fighting for love. and here we had the start of bali woods golden era. in 2012

shot rou, con came to berlin to present his film. don to, it was the 1st bollywood film in which large parts were shot in germany to what you guys have gotten yourself with the indians, indian to the end in the, in the middle everywhere, everywhere and well known. just read what other cons also left their imprint on the muscle. a format salmon con, became the roguish lover boy with extraordinary fighting skills. a mere con, did a little bit of everything, including playing the cricketer in log on. the con air at drew people in india as well as abroad to plush multiplex theaters with high priced tickets. their production values were going up, the glitz was glitzy or the anger had dissolved into romantic desire. and the muscle, a film had takers in many parts of the world. but the bollywood marcella film has had its fair share of criticism too. that is a huge divide between bollywood an art cinema otts. when am i?

she was real life and she was suffering because we, we believe we must know what our country's bollywood likes to sure. the, the lovely grand if you know larger picture of india take for example. the question of cast a vast majority of bollywood stars, producers, directors, and power players have been from upper cast backgrounds. critics say that bollywood films either completely ignore this facet of the indian society or pay mir lip service. feminist critiques have been equally harsh. popular bollywood sila films, feature women, largely as hyper sexualized objects with little else to do than be the male characters focus of interest knowledge. the things have changed in the also and you can repeat the same thing again and again in a different setting. lay give it being all that low of wiping and all, but like, it doesn't work anymore like that. and then came the pandemic in 2020 complete shut

down bollywood. couldn't bounce back to its former glory. how many of us i get there does, i'm leading too many people are going to cinemas to watch films, or someone offers access to entertainment at home for a subscription of $300.00 rupees a month. and then people will take it of me would eventually after coated people in my home, more price conscious support as other haunches will have it. with the digital revolution in india has made accessing entertainment legally. and through piracy extremely easy bmw, bollywood releases in 2022 tried every trick in the book. a feel good. hollywood remake a flop. a sort of saddle, historical, epic with hindu nationalist aspirations, a flop. and action fantasy with the british as the bad guys. a flop, in addition to technological disruption indian society and with it, bollywood core audience has changed dramatically over the past decade since 2014

india has consistently elected the hindu nationalists. maria tia genette top hardy to power. oh, even though 2022 is projected to rake in more money for hindi films than 2019 a huge chunk of it has come from hollywood and dubbed versions of south indian films. which brings us to bollywood current nemesis. the south block compromising the to meal to lu canada and milan film industry. south indian cinema has received more exposure and recognition globally and is delivering one box office hit after the other. so what is the south doing better than the hindi film? bit have a cit template which i understood like they have a protagonist actor who will be larger than life. and that's how you catch that

imagination of so many people whether it is our, our, our sultan, or k, g, f, 2. they follow the same formula of the masala film that bollywood invented. but more of everything and better. oh. so is it really time for volley? woods? funeral bollywood believed its monopoly over its audience was unshakable. the industry is now paying for its arrogance south indian films are now claiming the masala genre. new distribution paradigms are disrupting business, and a new audience is making new demands. bollywood would do well to pay attention. ah, and we will do the same and end our report here by merely saying,

victor, i leave becky heather iraqi ha, moving insights into indian society, winner of the 2022 has applied award di anita thing, touring europe with dancing with my camera in this is not working so well. in theory, the arrangement was done, but diana, to sing keeps things in flux. by rearranging her photos, she discovers new stories and points of connection. now that is not working here. for the past 40 years, she's been living with her extensive photo archive and the contacts sheets that were made in the analog age. for viewing the imagery for the actual print. this format has helped make her sought after by museum. so i

love to see how g 6 images at the same time because you can always find new connections between them. and that's how i experience photography. i don't experience it a single images. the berlin exhibition is called dancing with my camera. locally. i want you to move around the images like you would a sculpture, want you to bend down to experience the images in your body as well. and then we have a different connection. so it's not just me photographing from here and you looking from here. it's me photographing with my body and you receiving the images with the all body. her career began in the 1980s back when she was a student at the national institute of design and almond abad. she met the toddler player, soccer, hussein and went on tour with him. the famous musician became a mentor and friend for anita photography, offered

a route to freedom blue. i saw that he had a medium where i didn't know any women that i could make my own rules for how i wanted to live my life. and so it freed me from all these social obligations that were of a present at that time, you know, to, to get married to have children. those are all wonderful things, i suppose, but they were not for me. so i, i came to photography in a way to sort of buy my freedom from all the social obligations for her next project. she met with mona ahmed, a transgender person from delhi, the thought or a potash turned into a lifelong friendship, which transcended social and religious barriers. more, no, was just this very unique person, you know? so she didn't fit into any society till she went to live in the graveyard and built

herself a little house that became a palace. and she, she was just someone who constantly lived outside the norm outside the box is that society may have made for her. so she left the unix community as well, and imagine having someone like that in your life that kind of a role model you could say. morning died in 2017 while she was on the phone with di anita mooney, never left me. the she was such a big part of me. she's here is not just people, but also places that the photographer keeps. returning to her series file room, she delved into the fascinating world of indian archives,

minute into the archive. it is of cherry sensual. in a certain way, even in the naughty moment, do you know this room full of stories and secret m as a smell of the archive? which sarah mago says is between rose and present the mom. and i think, you know, that's how i will go one day i'll be photographing in some archive and i just dropped dead because because i don't know, i feel i belong in the archive on these walls. there is now also a sort of archive. diana to sing, uses her photos to korea composite works of art. she studied book design and almost at the beginning, she has seen the book as an equally important medium for presenting her photographs . they are smaller scale exhibitions, affordable to many, but she doesn't sell individual photos. for me, the photographs is always like a symphony. and how can you pluck one note and say,

this is what i will take home with me. it hurts me. and that's why i think i like the book, diane, you to sing tirelessly, invents, new display possibilities or can be unfolded and rearranged, to create ever changing references between the photos blue. i don't like that the exhibition gets stuck in one format. you know, exhibitions need to be alive because that's how i experience my work. and so they're all these tricks in the work. one example is this best she designed with 9 mini exhibitions and fan fault format of china. and the between for people who don't want to buy a ticket, i can go out and show them my museum anyway. and it's very important to take the museum outside itself to take photography outside itself. i think that's what art

can do, new to shift things around with diana to sing. there is no separation between life and art. she remains a pioneer and continues to inspire while breaking the boundaries of photography. that was over 21. with a look into an art scene in motion by and for you next time. blue . ah, with

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