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On Gehraiyaan's Narrative Trickery
Digging deeper, looking at how the film uses death, infidelity, and trauma.
Prathyush
Feb 14
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On Atrangi Re's Vanishing Act
Can we cringe from the very thing we crave?
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Jan 17
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On The Lata Mangeshkar (1929-2022) Debates
The singer who began her career in 1942 passed away yesterday. How to produce a coherent, complex, and meaningful articulation of her legacy?
Prathyush
Feb 7
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On Gangubai Kathiawadi And Sex Work
Embedding the movie in the context of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's art-artifice
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Feb 28
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On Bombay Begums' Narrative Sexuality
We are used to seeing sex as separate scenes in films. Then Twitter exploded asking if sex scenes were necessary as if movies were Jenga towers, and we…
Prathyush
Mar 15, 2021
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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.
Prathyush
Apr 25
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On Kota Factory's Self-Help Evangelism
Kota Factory is designed to be both relatable and aspirational. It is the latter part that rankles.
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Sep 27, 2021
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On Haseen Dillruba's Greyness
The film — a love triangle and murder-investigative — gets neither genres right, content with a greyness that it hopes is edgy.
Prathyush
Jul 5, 2021
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On Squid Game's Geopolitical Shift
How should we think about the ongoing cultural tilt? With pride as the balance shifts East, or as Tagore would, with worry?
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Oct 11, 2021
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On The White Tiger's Italicized Gaze
Why do we italicize words like paan, and namaste? Why do we make those we tell stories about outsiders in their own narrative?
Prathyush
Jan 25, 2021
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On Family Man's Apolitics
The first season was a brilliant subversion of genre. When you replicate an edgy subversion, does it then become a predictable trope?
Prathyush
Jun 7, 2021
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On Hampi, A Travel Essay
Once the capital city of a thriving empire, this is how Hampi unfolded for me
Prathyush
Dec 6, 2021
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