`Cinema can influence more than literature´
(WorldNews India)

NAGPUR: `National identity is a collective of local identities. Whoever says that movies need to be made in Hindi to acquire national stature is misguided,` said divisional commissioner Anoop Kumar while delivering a talk on `The idiom of Indian cinema`. It was organized by Cine Montage, in collaboration with Chitnavis Centre, at the latter`s premises on Sunday evening. Speaking on the dominance of Hindi cinema, Kumar said, our paradigms of categorization have made us hollow. All films are our films, he added. `Today`s Indian cinema is a story of convergence. You can bring your own stories and language to it, without having to melt and mint it in Hindi,`...