As the global traffic of ideas, images and objects filter into the Marathi sensorium, the new Marathi film constitutes the surface that registers, absorbs and refl ects its effects. Emerging alongside the mainstream, these fi lms tap into middle-class anxiety about changing lifestyles, urban unrest, an excess of choice, disparities and rural distress. Through this they attempt a different, almost edgy engagement with the everyday in order to manufacture an archive of the contemporary.
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