Contributions from Rehana Nurmahi | Little White Lies

Contributor Rehana Nurmahi

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How fanfiction took over the film world

by Rehana Nurmahi

With the lead char­ac­ter of The Idea of You bear­ing a strik­ing resem­blance to Har­ry Styles, we take a look at the rel­a­tive­ly recent his­to­ry of Wattpad and fan­fic­tion-based films tak­ing over the box office.
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How theatre kids finally found their spotlight

by Rehana Nurmahi

Tal­ent­ed, ambi­tious, and painful­ly earnest – the ​‘the­atre kid’ has long been a source of cin­e­mat­ic ridicule. How did it come to this?
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Why RRR’s success frustrates as much as it excites me

by Rehana Nurmahi

The Tol­ly­wood block­buster has won over glob­al audi­ences, but I hope west­ern view­ers won’t lim­it their con­sump­tion of Indi­an cin­e­ma to one break­out title.