Avant-Drag! review – queer artists light up the streets of Athens with joy and resistance

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Drag is a tool of self-expression and of protest in this kaleidoscopic portrait of the city’s vibrant underground art The queer defiance of Fil Ieropoulos’s kaleidoscopic documentary manifests not only through its subject, but also through its form. Centring on a group of drag performers and gender-nonconforming artists in Athens, this shape-shifting film celebrates a vibrant underground scene that thrives in a homophobic system, rife with state-sanctioned discrimination and violence. Introduced through an episodic structure, figures from the community light up the screen with their artistry and activism as they carve out a safe haven of their own. In each of the vignettes, we get a glimpse of both the joy and the peril of navigating the city as a queer person. Decked out in extravagant costumes and makeup inspired by Leigh Bowery, Kangela Tromokratisch struts in towering high heels, while her drag performances, with their vaudevillian feel, parody heteronormative ideals of motherhoo...
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Ajay Devgn opens up on Singham Again debacle; says, “We’ll keep in mind that going ahead Singham is definitely going to beat up more villains”

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Marking the return of one of the most beloved characters of Indian Cinema – Rohit Shetty and Ajay Devgn had promised audiences to take on another action-packed adventure of Bajirao Singham during Diwali last year. While the film, titled Singham Again, garnered a decent response at the box office, it failed to meet the expectations of being an extravaganza treat. Although not many opened about this matter, now, months after the release, the leading man Devgn decided to address the same during an interview.

A clip of Ajay Devgn talking on mistakes made in Singham Again goes viral

One of the social media users have taken to the platform X aka Twitter, to share a clip from a recent interview of Ajay Devgn where he is seen candidly answering the host regarding the feedback he received for Singham Again. After the host politely points out that the Bajirao Singham, who was known for his grand action sequences who would take on the villains alone in his bulky avatar, was missing from the recent 2024 release, Ajay agreed to the statement saying, “I think yeh reaction mujhe kaafi logon se aaya hai. toh aage dhyaan rakhenge ki woh jo Singham ka feel tha - guss guss ke maarne ka - woh aage zaroor rahega (I think I received a similar reaction from many. So, we are going to ensure that the next time – the authentic feel of Singham where he does intense action – will definitely be a part of the film)”.

Ajay Devgan Accepting his Mistakes regarding SINGHAM ???? Best ????????pic.twitter.com/ZAV2ZY6Yji

— POSITIVE FAN (@imashishsrk) January 26, 2025

About Singham Again

Directed by Rohit Shetty and produced under the banner Jio Studios, the film was the third movie in the Singham franchise and fifth one in the world of Rohit Shetty’s ambitious copverse. The film featured Kareena Kapoor Khan reprising her character of Avni Bajirao Singham along with a host of celebrities like Arjun Kapoor who played the lead antagonist with Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Tiger Shroff, and Akshay Kumar in key cameos. The film released during Diwali, on November 1.

Also Read: Ajay Devgn ‘honored’ as he becomes the official face for Bhamla Foundation’s World Environment Day 2025 Campaign



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