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    The grotesque fetish for realism in cinema

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    [ad_1] A still from Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas (2002). | Photo Credit: By special arrangement As one does, I spent a recent Sunday evening trying to convince a friend—from New Zealand, OCI, unschooled in Hindi cinema—to watch Devdas, the Sanjay Leela Bhansali opus and my personal origin story of love for cinema and excess—for cinema as…