Did Nepali community misinterpret Paatal Lok?
Warning: Spoilers ahead Faithful representation of reality without censoring and “putting raw things in reel setting to portray and ‘not embolden’ the discomfort in the society” through any visual art is what we understand as uncensored realism and cinematic symbolism. In India, we rarely get to watch such visual art, which uses the above art techniques to address the issues ailing our society. In less than a week of release, Amazon Prime’s new web-series Pataal Lok stood at par of utilizing such techniques in a very captivating manner, taking the audience to a new level of noir-fiction drama with its realistic portrayal of social filth, rooted in the soul of India. However, with so much popularity it gained, certain sections of the community are not happy with how the things are shown in the web-series. A viral ten seconds clip from the series turned the table towards criticism, with thousands of posts and petitions being circulated on social media against the creators of the