Archive - From Prathyush

On Beauty & Bhansali’s Cinema—My Debut Book, On Pre-order

The book will be out in November-end. The pre-order links are live.

Nov 4, 2024 •

December 2022

On The Perfect Novel; A Short 2022 Dispatch

I only picked up this novel because a friend, a dearest friend, told me of a wedding toast where the book was quoted.

Dec 30, 2022 •

September 2022

On 1970s Bombay Cinema; A Long Read

The Angry Young Man and the Thinking Woman, between parallel cinema and the thudding success of a mythological drama.

Sep 28, 2022 •

August 2022

On The Satanic Verses

Thinking of Rushdie this Independence Day.

Aug 15, 2022 •

April 2022

On The Film That Must Not Be Named

To tell a story of violence, you have to have an unusual sensitivity to not replicate that same violence, that same poison.

Apr 25, 2022 •

February 2022

January 2022

On Nostalgia For The College Days

Hridayam, a Malayalam film, asks you to participate in its project of eliciting nostalgia, even if it does so with shameless, predictable genre…

Jan 24, 2022 •

On Atrangi Re's Vanishing Act

Can we cringe from the very thing we crave?

Jan 17, 2022 •

December 2021

On Hampi, A Travel Essay

Once the capital city of a thriving empire, this is how Hampi unfolded for me

Dec 6, 2021 •

November 2021

On Crying In Theaters

The week before I watched Chloé Zhao’s Eternals and read Amitava Kumar's A Time Outside This Time and I have not felt more grateful and more afraid of…

Nov 22, 2021 •

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