India, March 16 -- Paul Thomas Anderson's politically charged film, One Battle After Another, was nominated in 13 categories and won six Oscars, including for Best Feature and Best Director. This is not surprising since many believe that the film, loosely based on an early Thomas Pynchon novel, Vineland, anticipates the rise of an authoritarian regime and endorses political action in defence of liberal values. Pynchon is hardly a political extremist, even though his fiction has been radical and genre-defining. Anderson's interpretation, however, is political in the way he invokes the anarchist politics of the 1960s to address the concerns and fears in Trump's America. The film uses the trope of a lone ranger protecting his family/daughter...