Entertainment in a public place shrivels as the lockdowns continue. The Australian Ballet has cancelled its Melbourne season, Anna Karenina included. Not only the Melbourne International Film Festival but the Indian Film Festival has become a stay-at-home TV screen affair. This is a particular pity given that the latter included a retrospective of films by the great Satyajit Ray and the millennials would have been dazzled to see Charulata or Jalsagar on a big screen.
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