That era is dead.
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Forums love to extract 30-second clips from serious Bollywood films and re-contextualize them. A tragic death scene becomes a reaction meme for a cricket match loss. This "repackaging" changes the film's emotional DNA. For example, dialogue from Gangs of Wasseypur is now used as a greeting among friends, divorced entirely from the film's violent context. That era is dead
