Roopal Kewalya

Roopal Kewalya is an alumnus of National Institute of Design (NID, Ahmedabad) where she studied Film Direction, and has worked as a television writer for the last few years. She is a gold medalist in English Literature from Delhi University and was recently longlisted for the Times Chickenhouse Competition for childrens’ fiction in London.

Why Bollywood movies should end with “The Beginning” rather than “The End”

Remember the Eastman colour days of Bollywood? The ending was the Hindi film equivalent of riding into the sunset – the hero and heroine would get married and ride into an unknown future of which we would never know anything except the end credits that said ‘The Beginning’. Whoever thought of closing the film with …

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Do we marry a person or a name?

Why is a woman expected to change her name or religion to fall in line with social or religious norms, even in a so-called love marriage?