A Study of Internet Film Genre in Indian Context

Abstract

Realism is an art movement, endeavouring to create an illusion of reality in any medium. The movement heralded in cinema in Post Second World War Italy, was the flag bearer of similar movements across the world, like the parallel cinema movement in India. With passage of time, the cinema that was on fringes of mainstream with the likes of Satyajit Ray and Ritwik
Ghatak and Mrinal Sen, came to the foray with the likes of Madhur Bhandarkar, Anurag Kashyap and Vishal Bhardwaj. Today, as cinema in India is moving away from the big screen to the smaller screen in the living room and micro screens on smart phones, Internet has emerged not only a platform, but it is also replacing the need of a film theatre or measuring box office collections and has even become the media for publicity and marketing of films.