From its title alone, Aryan Khan’s Bastards of Bollywood  announces itself as both provocation and inheritance. Skepticism was inevitable: here was Shah Rukh Khan’s son stepping into the arena, trailers leaning heavily on his father’s aura, and SRK himself fronting the marketing, confirming the critique that haunts every star child: a debut cushioned by privilege. The show itself, though, is far stranger, sharper, and more self-aware than its marketing let on. This is is not

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Anuparna Roy’s Songs of Forgotten Trees made history at the Venice Film Festival, where she became the first Indian filmmaker to win Best Director in the Orizzonti section. Without film school credentials or industry pedigree, Roy’s debut rejects clichés of Indian cinema abroad. Her intimate, feminist storytelling reframes women not as symbols or victims but as survivors who demand to be witnessed.