As Behl himself says: "There are so many films made in India, and there is a split personality, almost like two different ideas of Indian cinema that are there.
It is also the latest addition to a lineage of transgressive, alternative Indian cinema that barely gets talked about. Director Kanu Behl's Agra, which played last Thursday in the Director's Fortnight sidebar section, is a shocking and forthright look at sexually repressed men in India that is replete with nudity and explicit sex scenes. – Cannes review: The Zone of Interest is 'a masterpiece'īut anyone who imagines that all Indian cinema is so innocent was in for a big surprise at this year's Cannes Film Festival. – The power of Cannes hit How to Have Sex Indeed, Bollywood directors over the last century have had to find ways to depict sexiness in understated, suggestive ways that get past the disapproving glare of the controlling censors – like a big number featuring a demure actress in a white sari running through a fountain, for example. One of the things Indian cinema is known for all around the world, as well as song-and-dance numbers, is its chasteness, as a result of popular Bollywood productions, which historically didn't even allow for kissing on screen, let alone sex scenes.
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