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A brief and highly subjective rating of the common problematic tropes you'll encounter in pop culture offerings
From 'White Saviour' to 'Poor People Who Work Hard and Get Rich', there's no end to these problematic movie tropes
Revisiting Chinna Tambi: Every problematic trope in the 1991 Prabhu-Khushboo starrer
Allegedly Problematic: 30 years later, revisiting the Prabhu-Khushbu starrer Chinna Thambi
Revisiting Murder by Death: 1976 film showed how not to play race, sexuality for laughs
20 years of Minnale: How does the Madhavan-Reema-Abbas romance hold up in a more woke era?
As Minnale nears its 20th anniversary, revisiting the good, bad and problematic of Gautham Menon's film
Allegedly Problematic: The feminist analysis of Ramarajan's Paattukku Naan Adimai no one asked for
Revisiting Ramarajan's 1990 film Paattukku Naan Adimai: Of village heroes and small-town favourites
Revisiting Singaravelan: Nine thoughts on watching '90s Kamal Haasan-starrer
Singaravelan: Was Kamal Haasan's 1992 film swashbuckling bucket of family fun, or sexist stalking saga?
On loving problematic Tamil cinema, and where 1999's Monisha En Monalisa fits on that spectrum
Monisha En Monalisa was labelled among Tamil cinema's lowest points. So I rewatched the film in 2020
India Syndrome: What you get when you fetishise a country and its culture while subscribing to stereotypes
Mythical or mystical? Revisiting India Syndrome, which afflicts well-meaning, spirituality-seeking Westerners
The Love Guru: Racism of Mike Myers' 2008 film is just one sparkling gem in its diadem of problematic-ness
Allegedly Problematic: Mike Myers' 2008 film The Love Guru shows us that white dudes really can do anything