Tollywood The Sexy Lamp Test states: “If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you’re a hack.”Rajeswari ParasaIn recent times, there has been much discussion on the representation of women on screen. Feminist critics have also come up with various tests to guage how well women characters are portrayed in a film. You may have heard of the popular Bechdel test, but there's also the Sexy Lamp Test that several Indian movies would fail. Coined by American writer Kelly Sue DeConnick, the Sexy Lamp Test simply states: “If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you’re a hack.” If Telugu movies are put to the Sexy Lamp Test, not many would come out with flying colours. In many of these movies,...
- 1/27/2021
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