Day: June 4, 2018

If You Won’t Let Us Laugh, Someday We’ll Make You Cry

June 4, 2018March 31, 2023

‘Veere Di Wedding’ caused an uproar. Why? Because Indian audiences find it intolerable for women to laugh, much less laugh together.

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