A look at Asian Cinemas

小孩不笨2 I Not Stupid 2 After his father dies, Chengcai returns to school determined to study hard so as to not let his father down. He decides to rent his flat out to earn some extra money. Tom invites him to stay at his house. Knowing his mother will disapprove due to Chengcai's past, Tom and his younger brother Jerry get friends to help and they devise a creative and elaborate plan to get their mother to agree. Mrs Yeo eventually welcomes Chengcai into their family after he rescues them from a robber.

Parenting is defined as the rearing of a child or children, especially the care, love, and guidance given by a parent. However, what differs from one child to another is most commonly their upbringing, in other words, the parenting style they were raised with. These different parenting styles play an integral role in the development of a child’s social, cognitive, and psychological growth. This is because children develop through a number of stimuli, interactions, and exchanges, which surround them. There are four main parenting styles, including the authoritative and authoritarian, which are the two most commonly seen extremes. Two films that perfectly highlight Asian cultures of parenting are I Not Stupid Too and Taare Zameen Par . Both films display the sociological imagination of the Asian family “At Home” and in the diaspora. The movies expose a clear emphasis on race, gender, and class that is highlighted in “Asian” Cultures of Parenting. They also trail the stereotypical min...

Set in the metropolis of Kolkata, the main scenes of the movie Kahaani, which means story in Hindi, deliver a  The director takes the viewers back to the old  Durga Puja - Annual Hindu festival in South Asia that celebrates worship of the Hindu Goddess Durga. 

In the past few years, Hong Kong and India have seen totalitarian governments toppled and democracy set up; India has overcome colonialism but is still holding on to parts of ancient culture, and Hong Kong has struggled to make a full democratic transition. Two films that greatly highlight the process of nation building behind contextual ideas are Confessions of Pain and Kahaani . These movies are a representation of Asian metropolises in their dynamic postcolonial states. The films focus on globalized identities as a critical site for the mapping of a convergence of anxieties about urbanity and modernity. Hong Kong and Indian cinema are driven by one narrative over another narrative, in the sense where the movies here are telling a cover-up story about political states. Both films have taken a scope of crime as a method to convey a moment of change in the world. These films are centered on police affairs but perfectly manage to deliver an alternative portrayal. Confessions of Pain ...