Bollywood's trademark romances are disappearing from screens in service of hypermasculinity and religious fervor, endangering the escapist fantasy that classic love stories offered audiences for decades.

'The Romantics' presented a PR exercise neatly packaged as intellectual discourse, blurring the line between documentaries and PR.

Socio-economic shifts in the country have changed what Indian audiences relish -- and it is no longer the idealized NRI archetype.

This week in The Buzz Cut: a couple navigates the spotlight, a pan-India song breaks barriers, and an aged woman baffles the press.

We've become accustomed to seeing women as secondary characters in the grand scheme of men's stories.

The takeaway for young girls is that the only way they'll ever be happy is if they have a man in their lives.

Current filmmaking trends, including Brahmāstra, indicate that the larger workings of Bollywood, and the "Boycott Gang," are two sides of the same coin.

When women are put on a pedestal for choosing not to abort, and vilified for having one, the idea that they have free will is an illusion.

This week in The Buzz Cut: men's rights activists express outrage, a woman who broke the internet now saves it, and rupee comes of age.

One question continues to loom large: is DDLJ really the best representation of Indian cinema in the 21st century?

Aamir Khan's Forrest Gump remake has run into trouble ahead of its release, because of his comments -- as a Muslim -- on rising intolerance from years ago.

The call to boycott 'Brahmastra' is a symptom of a larger issue: the cultural loss of suspended disbelief.

In The Buzz Cut, we bring you a round-up of news you wish wasn’t news. Successful South Indian Actor Upstaged at Own Wedding by North Indian Actors’ Wishes A successful actor’s wedding ceremony this week was widely celebrated in the media 

Talking about ‘The Archies’ would need to recognize nepotism as a feature of power at all levels of society.

Movies relying on the trope also portray women who don't dress a certain way, or seem conventionally alluring, as 'undateable.

“Everything looks like Instagram images.”

This week in The Buzz Cut, a journalist's health worries the government, a director makes strides in science, and a climate report pleasantly waves at humans locked in self-destruction.

This week in The Buzz Cut, two women defy scientific odds with their friendship and Hollywood learns casting from Bollywood.