India, Sept. 28 -- Last week, debutant director Aryan Khan's show The Ba***ds of Bollywood (BoB) landed on Netflix, and the Film Federation of India announced that Homebound (2025), directed by Neeraj Ghaywan, would be India's submission for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars. To be India's pick for the Oscars means Ghaywan's film is considered good enough to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the best from around the world. Not that streaming platforms are the equivalent of the Oscars, but the arrival of companies such as Disney+, Netflix and Amazon Prime was supposed to herald a new era in which Indian entertainment would soar unshackled. A decade later, the disappointing reality is that, qualitatively, few Indian shows hold to th...