Graphic violence in cinema: how much is too much?

Indian cinema is increasingly packaging bloodshed and brutality as heroism, argues a new critique, with women and children paying the price. It points to films such as 'The Paradise', 'Ranabaali' and 'Toxic', and says the KGF franchise, Akhanda, Animal and Dhurandhar have pushed limits so far that violence on screen now has to be intoxicating, repulsive and mind-numbing at once.