The last decade has seen such a range of technologies, from the camera phone to the most sophisticated digital equipment; such an avalanche of talent, from trained to completely untrained actors and a volume of content impossible to document and categorise. [...] The oTT platforms have made the most of this time of lockdowns and restrictions to provide entertainment in unprecedented volumes and a number of languages—original and dubbed. [...] What does this herald for the film industry? Is there a future for the industry as we knew it? In the words of the guest editors, ‘do the pandemic, and serial lockdowns which began in march 2020 mark a clean break with the pasts of cinema? or is it more like the interval in our films, which heightens the drama but eventually leads us to predictable endings?’ The pandemic continues to dominate our. [...] The first is a comment, and the second a suggestion. [...] The first is Made in Heaven, which is a candid view of the corruption and greed behind our vulgar affluence in delhi.
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