panchayat

At any given time, you’ll find Amazon’s Aparna Purohit covered in a heap of scripts, looking for the perfect story. Over an hour-long chat, we spoke about hers.
From a show that captures modern India in all its complexities and contradictions to a film that calls out male entitlement, below are titles that gave expression to our anxieties and grief and created a relatable world of both, reality and escape.
Jitendra Kumar, fondly known as Jeetu Bhaiya, is all over our screens. But the road to the movies has been long and lonely.