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The Hollywood Reporter, LLC is a subsidiary of Prometheus Global Media, LLC. Playing: At Downtown Independent, Los Angeles. The grindhouse industry fizzles in the end along with the brothers’ relationship, but the film doesn’t make clear if the catalyst is simply the advent of the VCR or the outcry against child pornography that was on the edge of the public conscience. Partly driven by his concerns that Bollywood-dominated India is the “laughing stock” of global cinema, Ahluwalia has striven for a very self-consciously arty aesthetic here, more Gus Van Sant than Michael Mann.