![]() ![]() Romanticising the Stockholm syndrome, Reena falls for Rocky and marries him. Just violence, mental harassment and blackmailing a parent by hanging the possibility of his child’s rape over his head. Rocky doesn’t rape her though, because sex before marriage is not his scene. He states that he will hold her captive as his ‘entertainment’. In KGF 2, another hugely successful film that is breaking all box office records, Rocky, played by Kannada superstar Yash stalks and then kidnaps a rival’s daughter Reena. This is her apparent confession of love asking a man to have sex with her because she won’t be worthy of him after being raped by another. She agrees but goes to Pushpa’s house and asks him to sleep with her first because she wants her first sexual encounter to be with the man she considers her husband. Later in the film, a villain tells Srivalli that she will have to sleep with him to ensure her father lives. Not surprisingly the film portrays these incidents as light-hearted wooing and not attempted sexual assault. Encouraged, Pushpa then offers her friends five thousand rupees if they convince/force Srivalli to kiss him. Disturbingly, her friends take the money, forcing Srivalli to smile against her consent. Pushpa then proceeds to stalk her ceaselessly but when Srivalli doesn’t respond, his friend decides to pay her friends a thousand bucks so she will just look at him once and smile. ![]() It’s all nice and mindless, till he has a love at first sight moment with Srivalli, a young girl who sells milk for a living. Pushpa, short for Pushparaj is an ambitious, street smart, and fearless labourer who sits, walks and smokes in style. ![]() KGF Chapter 2 has already minted over Rs 1000 crore. These films not just reflect our patriarchal society, they glorify its most unfortunate aspects. Female characters, who are constantly objectified and exist only in the context of the hero, and stories that glorify male aggression and violence. An excessive focus on the physicality and machismo of the hero who is casually sexist and wilfully toxic. But what’s worrying and common to all these mega-successful films, is a return to regressive tropes that Bollywood has been struggling to leave behind. Desarkar's publications on Google Scholar and PubMed. He is using novel brain stimulation techniques to develop innovative ‘brain mechanism-driven’ treatment options for these autism-associated difficulties to improve outcomes for autistic adults. motor function difficulties, sensory sensitivities, executive function difficulties). Using innovative brain stimulation techniques, including transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and the combination of TMS and EEG (TMS-EEG), he is investigating evidence for atypical neuroplasticity and its connection with autism-associated difficulties (e.g. Desarkar's research has two overarching goals: 1) obtaining new knowledge related to neurophysiological underpinnings in neuropsychiatric disorders, especially autism, across the lifespan 2) developing novel therapeutic interventions for these conditions. Areas of ResearchĪs a clinician scientist, Dr. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, and a graduate faculty at the Institute of Medical Sciences, both at the University of Toronto. Desarkar is also the Medical Head of the Adult Neurodevelopmental Services at CAMH. Pushpal Desarkar is an adult neurodevelopmental psychiatrist, and clinician-scientist with the Azrieli Adult Neurodevelopmental Centre, Temerty Centre for Therapeutic Brain Intervention, and the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute at CAMH. ![]()
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