While successful films are always welcome because as the dear man Manmohan Desai used to say, you can’t argue with success, it is becoming a bit tiresome, not to mention self-defeating, to hear all the praise being showered on recent films whose prime virtue seems to be their affinity to tribalism and primitivism. Rishab Shetty, unknown outside Karnataka, suddenly acquired pan-India superstardom with just one film Kantara. No doubt much of the recognition that has come to Shetty is deserving. Kantara is certainly a praiseworthy film for its meticulous recreation of an ancient dance form which is performed in coastal...
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