No matter how safe and formulaic many biopics choose to be, sometimes it’s the subject alone that does the heavy-lifting.

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West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday (October 6, 2026) announced that the Bhagini Nivedita Scheme has been approved by the Cabinet. Under this scheme, monetary assistance of Rs 50,000 ...

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1. Jeanine Basinger was the first film scholar to elevate the mid-20th-century melodramas known as “women’s weepies” as a genre and art form. These films featured a variety of female types that its ...