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In continuation of the trend of OTTs dropping films that seem political, Bollywood filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee’s TEES, which was commissioned and later shelved by Netflix, was recently screened at the 13th Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF) to a packed hall and received a roaring standing ovation. Spread across three timelines, a contested past, a complicated present and an algorithm-controlled future, the film — starring Naseeruddin Shah, Manisha Koirala, Neeraj Kabi, Divya Dutta, Huma Qureshi, Kalki Koechlin, Shashank Arora, among others — is about three generations of a Kashmiri Muslim family, about the idea of home and belonging. In this exclusive interview to Moneycontrol's Tanushree Ghosh, filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee talks about making cinema in post-modern, post-truth times, about artistic freedom and censorship, about being an Indian, why he doesn’t like watching his older films, why Malayalam cinema is the most successful in the country right now, what is the reason behind the crisis in Bollywood, and why his films and his sense of humour are getting darker. Read the full interview on Moneycontrol

Dibakar Banerjee: ‘I’m an Indian; an Indian can be everything, I can be Hindu & Muslim, Bengali & Kashmiri’

MC EXCLUSIVE: Why filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee, whose Netflix-shelved film ‘Tees’ screened at the recently concluded 13th Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF), refuses to become a victim of the ‘sameness’ that has gripped Bollywood.

Darknet-based drug cartel busted with 'largest ever' LSD seizure, six arrests, says NCB

LSD or lysergic acid diethylamide is a synthetic chemical based-drug and is categorised as a hallucinogen.

Startup CEO fired for LSD use claims discrimination in lawsuit

Justin Zhu, who was fired from Iterable Inc. last year after disagreements with his investors, claims in a complaint filed in state court in San Francisco that the company's stated reason for firing him, that he violated company policy by using an illegal drug, was "pretextual and a subterfuge."

LSD melts down prior beliefs, 'rewinds the brain's clock': Study

A person's thoughts are often suppressed or filtered through the past experiences and perceptions. LSD "takes that filtering and suppression away", allowing the person to look at the world with a completely new perspective, the researchers claimed.

Shanghai is a deeply political film: Dibakar Banerjee

From Khosla ka Ghosla to Shanghai, Dibakar Banerjee is just four films old, yet bit by bit each of these films have contributed to his formidable reputation as one of the most distinct and relevant film makers of our times.

Psychedelic icon Stanley dies

Owsley "Bear" Stanley, a 1960s counterculture figure who flooded the flower power scene with LSD and was an early benefactor of the Grateful Dead, died in a car crash in his adopted home country of Australia on Saturday, his family said.