Is There an Impulse to Escapism in Indian Cinema?

The eighties certainly were a weird decade, because these two things are happening very much in tandam. A lot of the directors who i credit with moving the gangsters jorner along, are also making the most incredibly commercial film stuff that you can imagine. So i don't see it as a very opposed to each other. I think it just became more possible by them to present a slightly more violent, a more realistic portrayal of the streetsf ofa criminality. They echoed what was happening in bold in in the cinema of other countries more, honestly, i guess, than they could in the seventies. And it just sort of a came about without, i think, too

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