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It's the reason the British felt so at home in India and refused to leave for so long. It's the reason Blackpool gave Gandhi such a warm reception. It's the reason, curry is the favorite dish of the Brits. The common people of the UK are very similar to the larger population of India. There's a cultural bond. Wierd but true.

There's much more, in other Indian languages, e.g. In Malayalam, Jairaj's Othello, Anthony and Cleopatra, and Macbeth. I actually prefer Jairaj's Othello over Bhardwaj's. Excellent lecture, visuals, and bibliography here. I subscribed immediately.

Absolutely mind blowing! Congratulation.

Great video! Really sheds some light on how history intertwines with all aspects, even cinema. Keep creating, we need this type of content to get popular...

I love this type of out of the box topic!

na videshi na hum is bare mein baat karte hain aur promote karte hain ki humne duniya ko ivc se leke ancient bharat se leke medieval times se aaj kal kaise influence kiya, jisse is topic ko development aur promotion mile, par hum abhi yeh bariki se samajne aur baat karne mein lage hain ki videshiyo ne hamare pe kya asar dala, koi videshi hamare baare mein yeh aisi baat karta hai is level pe, nahi , hum abhi bhi unke hi dimag mein fase hain, aur hamesha raheinge mujhe lagta hai, aage nahi badeinge

yeh fake firangi accent marne ki koshish zaruri nahi hai

u r saying he was like a mainstream masala chatpata picture maker like storyteller but then compare his works to his adaptation which are more on the art house side

wonderful video overall! especially love your oration and editing

this tells Bollywood is soooo behind 😂

Wow. I mean wow. What a piece! I thank my algorithm that I could find your channel through this masterpiece. The subject of this video itself is so marginalized and yet you've successfully depicted it with every single detail. It's amazing. Subscribed!

Boy you struck a gong in my brain that will echo for an unconventional amount of nighttime mind wanderings to find correlations to so so so many events in history .

I chanced upon your video in my feed and it's so good! Remember me when you're famous

Calling Shakespeare “Masala Literature” Is EXACTLY the kinda validation I needed in my love for both genres, lol. I love how wide the range of Shakespeare adaptations have in India tho. His plays aren’t put on such a pedestal that there's always a pressure to intellectualise the adaptations. There’s a certain freedom Indian filmmakers have with just playing with the content of the original script and rolling with it, giving us the space to have movies from Bhardwaj’s socio-political adaptations to something as silly-goofy as Anurag Singh's "Dil Bole Hadippa".

Love it when Indians make a great video essay.

Hey this is my first video of yours! Damn what a great video yaar! Absolutely love this observation the way you put it. Time just flew by. ❤

just found ur channel and i love these videos. I believe ur filling an important void in the indian/indian cinema video essay sphere

Wonderful discourse! I enjoyed every second of it. Quite a professional oration, research as well as editing. I am surprised this video has so few views and likes. Keep it up!

Well done on another great essay! Astute observations here with really interesting research 🫡

Videos like this is what TH-cam needs, great work.

Now while watching this, I realized that there was one industry which was walking somewhere on the middle path. The Marathi film industry! The films like Shejari, Sadhi Manase, mumbaicha javai etc. Could be seen somewhere in the middle of the spectrum!

Even though i am currently 16, I've grown up on seeing Raj Kapoor, Gurudutt, Hrishikesh Mukherjee,Bimal Roy Mehboob Khan and Shakti Samath. These people are my childhood, the songs from Aawara, shree 420 and ton of other films were an important part of my childhood. When it comes to Mr Roy, it's true that he said that Indian audience isn't that educated..but in my opinion they will see what's more relevant to them, no wonder his works are unparalleled..but besides Nayak ( Uttam Kumar), charulata and pather Panchali..I'll always prefer Indian cinema directors like Gurudutt and Hrishikesh Mukherjee...

Please also consider movies of V Shantaram including the marathi movies like Pinjra also alongwith Hindi for analytical review

Great n fantastic viewpoint but it was BS film. Peace ✌

Satyajit Ray was product of the Ray-Tagore mindset, which were key proponents of Bengal Renaissance , very nationalistic yet globalists, dreamers but realists, faithful but not dogmatic or superstitious, he was a polymath and deep thinker, illustrations, music, filmmaking , professionally writing as an author, translator(many stories into Bangla Language) he was master of all...cannot just compare such a towering personality (literally!) with the hindi -punjabi belted Kapoor, khanna etc kinds

SATYAJIT RAY 🙏👌✨⭐🌟👏🌹

well written, very interesting ❤

Excellent essay, as always. Best one yet! (First 🔥🔥🔥)

Bold of you to question Ray’s sense of authenticity as clickbait for the video

Amazing video. Quick correction though: Kal Ho Na Ho isn't directed by Karan Johar as shown at 00:48. It's a common misconception, the actual director is Nikhil Advani. KJo is the producer.

I really appreciate the existence of this video

Beautiful fucking analysis

thankyou for this

STELLAR video essay. Thank you immensely for your sensitive introspection on the racialization of authenticity within the politics of Indian cinema ❤❤❤

Love this, hope your dissertation earned you top scores. Have been learning about India's history a lot through movies.

Lovely, thank you

great essay!!! Do you have letterboxd account??

You my friend just got another subscription

Maybe 70 years from now someone will make a video comparing Bhojpuri films and Influencer reelers...

When I was younger I used to watch movies that depicted the characters and the setting in a realistic yet poetic way, but as I grew older and started getting buried in more and more of the REAL WORLD of just wanted to escape into a world of fantasy😂. My point is for people who are already struggling with their real life the fantastical world of cinema can create a way to escape for a couple of hours and there's nothing wrong with that, I personally love both the worlds equally ❤

Western Intellectuals loved Ray, Soviet Masses loved Kapoor. Talk to an old Russian and they will tell you their love of Indian cinema and even sing the songs.

Damn I'm impressed, I'm genuinely quite impressed. Best of luck dude

Great essay. However, I disagree on two points though. 1) The Shantiniketan school didn't even reject the western tradition even in the Gandhian way of cottage industries, in fact Rabindranath championed the ideals of enlightenment which he always felt without whose appreciation India was stuck in its dark days of Smriti and Sruti education imparted in the traditional education. However, he hated the industrial mass produced education colonialism brought to India. He kind of wanted a Humboldtian education system, where knowledge is for sake of learning, free thought and self actualisation but with Indian characteristics free from the ideals of Western supremacy which the Enlightenment gave the west. 2) Satyajit Ray's films are more socialist and collectivist, than the West's understanding that capitalism has won. In fact Mahanagar, Hirok Rajar Deshe, Seemabaddha, and Jana Aranya, critiques the individualist direction of the post colonial bengali society and also especially Hirok Rajar Deshe calls for a collectivist overthrow of such a society. While Raj Kapoor's films, trying to serve us a socialist fantasy we can achieve via collective action distances itself from the material reality, Satyajit Ray's films reflect the social and material reality of colonial and post colonial society; and firmly upholds the notion that without an honest conversation about these realities, a collective action is anti-dialectical. In this viewpoint its very much socialist.

Ray is highly overrated

Master of Commercial cinema + master of art cinema

Good Video ❤ Could you tell where have you taken scenes from the Awara movie? They’re of good quality and most of the movies uploads on TH-cam are low quality.

A key difference between the two is that Kapoor's target audience was the general public, while Ray's films, in his own words, were not for "the unintelligent audience"...

Your audio needs to be clearer and louder homie

First of all comparing satyajit ray with raj Kapoor itself is a crime 😂 and you have committed this crime

Don't know about other things but the songs of Raj Kapoor will be played till eternity❤❤❤❤