When turning the spotlight on the entertainment world, don’t let the facts get in the way of the truth. Jubilee (2023) is set in the late 1940s, even though the protagonist based on Himanshu Rai died in 1940.
Hollywood, lately, has been obsessed with itself. It has made some great movies about directors (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, 2015), classics (Saving Mr. Banks, 2013), actors (La La Land, 2016) and scandals (Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, 2019). Our own cinema has often turned the camera on itself too, with mixed results. Here's how India should make movies and TV shows about the movies:
Forget the facts.
This story is from the June 03, 2023 edition of Brunch.
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