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But Praveen Kandregula’s debut - centred on an autorickshaw driver and a still photographer, in an Andhra Pradesh village, wanting to make a film - squashes the conventional to imagine the magical. What do you think when you hear the word “filmmaker”? The chances are high that a certain kind of person comes to your mind: educated, polished, city-slicker. The credit for its English Subtitles read, “1” Barrier”.) (One of the more acclaimed ones, The Great Indian Kitchen, even paid a direct homage to the Bong Joon-ho quote. And since streaming platforms encourage us to “ overcome the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles”, we could access films from all over the country. So, at the end of the year, we remember more OTT films than theatrical releases - both in terms of quantity and quality.
But even now, some uncertainty lingers, as a new variant or wave can still lock us indoors. Movies returned to theatres from the end of August, but people were still hesitant and unsure, a reluctance that has only begun to fade in the last few weeks. We spent the first two months recovering from the first wave, and when theatres began to open in March - allowing a handful of releases - the second wave hit in April.
Our relationship with cinema halls, in 2021, echoed last year’s disappointments.
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