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On Gehraiyaan's Narrative Trickery
Digging deeper, looking at how the film uses death, infidelity, and trauma.
Feb 14, 2022 • 
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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.
Dec 30, 2022 • 
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On Gangubai Kathiawadi And Sex Work
Embedding the movie in the context of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's art-artifice
Feb 28, 2022 • 
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On Hampi, A Travel Essay
Once the capital city of a thriving empire, this is how Hampi unfolded for me
Dec 6, 2021 • 
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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?
Feb 7, 2022 • 
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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.
Apr 25, 2022 • 
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On The Satanic Verses
Thinking of Rushdie this Independence Day.
Aug 15, 2022 • 
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On Atrangi Re's Vanishing Act
Can we cringe from the very thing we crave?
Jan 17, 2022 • 
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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.
Nov 4, 2024 • 
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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…
Mar 15, 2021 • 
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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.
Sep 28, 2022 • 
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On Frustrating Desire
Scenes From A Marriage and Giovanni's Room paint desire as it is — frustrating, ambivalent, contradictory, necessary.
Oct 18, 2021 • 
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