Liberty theatre
Does a film on freedom make us feel freer? You know the answer to that and I won't insult you by putting it in words.
Neepa Mazumdar, in her book, , interviews Girish Karnad about Fearless Nadia, the stunt star of the 1930s. He talks of how half the pleasure of watching Nadia's films lay in being able to imitate the fights and stunts afterwards. We all have this story -- about a dance move we practised, a swagger we adopted, a phrase we began to use as if it were our own. I remember feeling this mouth-watering desire to own the cool of Pawan Malhotra's character in Saeed Mirzas -- his swagger, indolent flamboyance and verbal flair. It bypassed gender, sexuality and social class via bodily pleasure, right from the screen into my being. Much is said about the messages of conformity that
