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Looking at Indian cinema through Pudovkin’s five editing techniques

Russian film theorist and filmmaker, Vselovod Pudovkin wrote about five editing techniques in his 1929 book 'Film Technique and Film Acting'. These five techniques are contrast, simultaneity, parallelism, symbolism, and leit motif. While the evolution of editing as a narrative tool, in Indian cinema or otherwise, cannot be entirely attributed to Soviet film theorists, it becomes relevant to see how Pudovkin’s film techniques are implemented today, even in popular Indian cinema.