| No Images? Click here  Salman Khan's Bharat released mid-week on Eid and predictably, it's inching towards the 100-crore club, like most Salman Khan films usually do. Although we didn't have an interview with Khan this time, here's a throwback to the time (June 2017) I met him for a chat which pissed him off so much, he walked out of it (Spoiler: I asked him about Being Human being a front to clean-up his image).Meanwhile, here's a very hilarious review of Bharat.Our big story of the week was about the dramatic rise and fall of the comedy collective All India Bakchod. I spent the past few months interviewing employees of AIB, including the founders, to piece together the story of India's first comedy collective.The interviews suggest that the fall of AIB was consistent with the logic of the influencer economy: the forces that fuelled its stratospheric rise — Twitter, internet culture, virality and advertiser-driven growth — also propelled its rapid end.Love this newsletter, hate it? Write to me at @aktalkies This granular account on AIB’s rise and fall is based on several months of reporting and interviews with Bhat, Joshi, Shakya and Khamba, and six former AIB employees — four of whom are women. HuffPost India also reached out to Mahima Kukreja, and three more women who had worked with AIB, but they declined to comment.AIB’s unravelling is an indictment of a moment where too many brands, corporations, business models, and influencers use the language of feminism to push products, promote themselves and make money, while begging off when asked to actually live up to the principles they espouse in their Insta stories.  If you were to put biceps on a middle-school history book, what you’d get is Salman Khan in Bharat. But don’t bother getting too creative with the imaginary book cover—in Bharat, Khan displays fewer expressions on his face than a blank A4 page.Which brings us to Salman Khan’s claim that people ditch their own weddings to act in films like Bharat while Priyanka Chopra committed the heinous crime of getting married instead. Seriously, right? What woman gives up the chance to sing and dance around a man impersonating a block of wood to sing and dance with a man she actually wants to marry? In case you missed it…
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