Oishik Sircar

1 month ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Oishik Sircar |Ilangovan Rajasekaran |Vaishna Roy |Sukumar Muralidharan

Cinema as a popular art form may have a relationship with the law that is not obvious. Like justice is the ostensible aim of the law, cinema as an aesthetic form has a bias towards seeing the triumph of right over wrong. When contemporary events are the subject matter of cinema, the aesthetics of realism may be superseded by the craving of the human mind for a narrative that bends towards justice.