I’ve long suspected that ‘glamour’ is often used in the industry as a euphemism to commodify heroines. It appears to be used to persuade them into believing in the ‘commercial’ film system, as you put it; into believing that skin-show is an essential part of the system, of telling such stories.
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Scene Movie Review: This Hero Can Take a Joke
In today’s extraordinarily image-conscious world, there’s something wonderfully reassuring about a star who lets us laugh at him. Someone secure enough to let another actor take the fight, another character take the punchline, and still know we’ll be looking at him. Massive credit to Suriya for doing this film, because Scene gives us a hero…
