The SCMC Chronicle Entertainment Magazine SPECTATORMarch 2020 Understanding GenZ Inside: A New-Age Storyteller Flip to: Love in the Age of Social Media CONTRIBUTORS SPECTATOR The SCMC Chronicle Entertainment Magazine Managing Editor: Dr. Sreeram Gopalkrishnan Executive Editor: Liji Ravindran Associate Editor: Supriti Malhotra Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson Assistant Editor (Design): Jaideep Kumar Layout and Design: Pratikshya Mishra once said, “My goal is never to be Pratikshya Editorial Team - Batch 2020 (Journalism) the loudest, or the craziest, but Arpan Cheema Mishra Arpan Audita Bhattacharya the most entertaining.” Gunjan Hariramani Cheema Kavisha Manwani We, at Spectator aim to be all Pratikshya Mishra Kavisha Rohaan Dev three ­­— loud, crazy, and of course, Manwani entertaining. When you hold a A publication of Symbiosis Centre for Media and Communication (for internal circulation only) copy of the Spectator in your hand, you’re looking at a land of Symbiosis Centre for Media and Communication magic, where entertainment isn’t Symbiosis Viman Nagar Campus, Survey No. 231, off New Airport Rd, just about showbiz, it’s about you. Viman Nagar, Pune 411014, Maharashtra, India – Editors, Spectator Write to: [email protected] Audita Rohaan Dev Bhattacharyya Gunjan Hariramani Pg 6 Pg 13 Pg 26 Love in the time Fast fashion and the Lights, camera, action: of social media struggle to make degree films and more it’s name in a world Pg 10 ruled by GenZ Pg 36 Catsuits to Captains: Knock, knock, who’s there? The evolution of Pg 16 female superheroes 10 reasons why Pg 44 on screen this generation A new-age storyteller: the can’t help but press story of Netflix’s Jamtara “next episode” Pg 22 Fit in or stand out? Pg 24 GenZ and femininity AND MORE... 4 5 inL the timeO of social media til the end of time. Today, many among the youth fear commit- ment. In any case, being cher- ished will last only when it is tied in with being acknowledged for what one is, not for what one V E appears to be. Today, young - Audita Bhattacharya people who have recently grad- uated from college want things, ome things must not change, like travel a lot, and find satisfaction Slove. Life on the internet may have in their contraptions and appli- allowed youngsters to easily associate cations. But for the more settled online, create connections, and be sure individuals, the online world about themselves; yet it has also led does not always constitute re- to an understanding that all that is said ality. The virtual world is fraught and done online, and the persona that with dangers, and you essen- is created, is somewhat shallow. Ever- tially need to battle unknown lasting love doesn’t exist on the web. online warriors. This is on the grounds that affection is To experience passionate feel- a deeply individual thing. You have to ings for someone is to perceive submit your entire self to that someone. that somebody exceptional is that, occasionally, the individu- You can’t simply love a person at the out there. Genuine romance als most deserving of it, don’t click of a mouse. You can’t judge how exists, yet the harshest thing is find it at all. wonderful someone is through an im- As you become more sea- age or a post. No selfie can catch the soned, you start to search for magnificence of an individual. You need better things, want numerous to battle with the inquiries regarding ex- progressions in nearly every- istence with this one individual you love thing, until you understand that and revere, and be brave enough to en- having discovered someone dure the cruel responses you may get. else may very well mean a lot of realisations about yourself. Youthful couples these days want the When you love somebody, you entire world to realize the extent of their will discover that it isn’t tied in love for one another. In times past, two with needing to make this indi- spirits who wished to be as one, away vidual the same as you are, or from the world, felt that the one person of copying the happiness of oth- that they needed be with so as to live er people around you, or of be- was their one true love.You had to walk ing praised by all of mankind of kilometers, dream dreams together, being equivalent of the timeless feel sadness and agony together, in the romance of Romeo and Juliet. Photo by luizclas from Pexels belief that the affection would go on un- 6 7 On social media, you can just post what you feel not how you Love isn’t just virtual nearness. feel. Individuals can change It is the solid presence of some- their appearances and edit re- one, where not just their glow volting posts, but not hide awful is felt, but the additional joy of connections. Two decades or their adoration and little demon- so back, courtship was difficult. strations of care and affection. Winning the heart of a truly ex- It is this way: if you are online ceptional woman had to done in spending restless evenings the hardest way possible. You doing what seem like moronic had show restraint in all things. things, over and over again, at You needed to really purchase that point simply try not to. and send her roses, chocolates and what not. Iromancet isn’t genuine Photo by Oladimeji Ajegbile from Pexels 8 9 resentation of women in their in support. Because of her po- selves with their powers, result- cinematic universe. Taika Waiti- litical activism & Infinity War’s ing in shenanigans. But Carol Catsuits to ti’s Thor: Ragnarok introduced post credits scene leading into doesn’t get this luxury, and it’s us to Valkyrie. Tessa Thompson Captain Marvel, the movie was frustrating to watch. Where played the character, whose highly anticipated. When it fi- their anger is righteous and Captains: only ‘likeable’ trait was that she nally released, the story it told just, hers is dangerous and un- could kick ass in a fight. She is was a distinctly female one. welcome. She’s the most pow- the complete opposite of Diana Carol Danvers is constantly told erful character in the MCU, and – cynical instead of hopeful, a to rein her powers in, to not let yet she’s the only one forced the Evolution of Female mercenary instead of a saviour, her anger fuel her actions. She to fight with one hand tied be- disillusioned instead of amazed struggles with her emotions and hind her back. Her memory is Superheros on Screen at the world around her – and instincts, not trusting them and erased and she’s then used as - Shradhdha Das yet, she is a superhero. Where believing that they’re getting in a weapon on the wrong side of Diana was perfect and good, her way. This has never been the war – her agency is stripped Valkyrie is messy and selfish – the case with any of the male in a manner that is jarringly re- and it’s liberating to watch both Avengers – they simply ac- flective of the world we live in. t the turn of the current cen- over his health and safety, lat- in assembling the Avengers. of them have complete control quire their powers and go trig- Atury, there was a slew of fe- er taking over Stark Industries. She’s clearly a key character. over their stories on screen. ger happy with them. There are The definitive moment of the male superhero movies. All of She exists completely in his But despite the long clamouring innumerable funny montages film is when she spares her them tanked at the box office. context; and although it’s clear for a solo movie by fans across In a bid to appeal to increasingly set to quirky music, where male mentor-turned-nemesis, but Cut to 2020 – there are five fe- that she’s essential to him, she the board, the Black Widow diverse global audiences, Mar- superheroes familiarise them- not out of the goodness of her male led franchises releasing never seems important to the movie was announced only af- vel Studios announced Black heart. “I don’t need to prove this year alone, with three big plot. ter the character sacrificed her- Panther and Captain Marvel “I DON’T NEED anything to you” she says, ris- Hollywood weekends reserved self in Endgame in 2019. – with diverse writers and di- for them. How did we get here? Natasha Romanoff is the next rectors working on both proj- TO PROVE major female character to be in- DC and Warner Bros’ Won- ects. Black Panther released ANYTHING TO YOU” Marvel struck gold with Iron troduced, again as Tony Stark’s der Woman was the definitive first – doing extremely well at Man and began to capitalize on demure, beautiful secretary, game changer that led to this the box office, earning Marvel the superhero genre in 2008. where she’s placed to spy long-awaited move. Releasing its first Academy Award nomi- Pepper Potts, introduced in the on him. The other characters in 2017 after the first Women’s nation and becoming a cultural first Iron Man as Tony Stark’s treat her as a mystery, and she March in the US and a renewed phenomenon. It arguably did trusted Girl Friday was primar- keeps cropping up in other peo- feminist movement across the more for female representa- ily a love interest – she worries ple’s films – assisting Nick Fury world in the face of right wing tion than all of the Marvel mov- governments, Wonder Woman ies preceding it.