The film "Jai Santoshi Maa," released in May 1975, became a spiritual revolution. Film critic Dilip Thakur claims that the validation of female audiences was the key to the film's success, which paved ...
The mythological, being unique to Indian cinema, is also its founding genre. Starting with Dadasaheb Phalke’s 50-minute silent movie Raja Harishchandra (1913), mythologicals dominated the silver ...