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On Gehraiyaan's Narrative Trickery
Digging deeper, looking at how the film uses death, infidelity, and trauma.
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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.
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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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On Hampi, A Travel Essay
Once the capital city of a thriving empire, this is how Hampi unfolded for me
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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?
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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.
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On The Satanic Verses
Thinking of Rushdie this Independence Day.
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On Atrangi Re's Vanishing Act
Can we cringe from the very thing we crave?
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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.
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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…
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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.
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On Frustrating Desire
Scenes From A Marriage and Giovanni's Room paint desire as it is — frustrating, ambivalent, contradictory, necessary.
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