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"It seems very pretty," she said, "but it's rather hard to understand."

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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

A tribute to Raj Kapoor as one of our finest song-actors

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[ Wrote this piece for a special, Raj Kapoor-themed issue of Frontline magazine ] ----------------- This is something every serious cineaste...
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Friday, May 30, 2025

Kaali Dilli, bheegi billi - two films about the chaos that is Delhi

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[From my Economic Times column] Perhaps because I re-watched Woody Allen’s Manhattan recently – with its hysterical and bittersweet love-le...
Friday, April 25, 2025

'Slow down, have a silent moment': a new exhibition pays tribute to In the Mood for Love

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[Worked on an interview-profile after a long time – this one for Open magazine, about an exhibition of paintings by the 25-year-old Varad Ba...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Unbridled fandom meets detailed analysis, in a new book about Vijay and Dev Anand

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(Wrote this short review for India Today) ------------------ A large number of Indian cinema publications are anecdote-driven or based on sa...
Saturday, April 19, 2025

In praise of excess: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Padmaavat, related thoughts

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(Wrote this for my Economic Times column, combining thoughts from a recent screening and an unrelated book launch) -------------- A Ukrainia...
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Daaru as dawa: on liquor and its many uses in cinema

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(An ex-colleague, the food historian and curator Anoothi Vishal, launched her dream project, The Food and Travel Almanac, a few days ago – a...
Sunday, March 09, 2025

A stoical cat, Bob Dylan, and a post-human world: quick thoughts on the animated film Flow

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(from my Economic Times column) --------- Come Oscar season, those of us who aren’t too interested in the competitive debates – which film w...
Monday, February 10, 2025

An Irawati Karve biography + The Girl with the Needle: scattered thoughts

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A few days ago I attended a stimulating discussion about Irawati Karve and her work — it was centred on the new book Iru , coauthored by Ka...
Friday, January 24, 2025

The little girl who lives on the edge – thoughts on children as adults onscreen

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( Wrote this for my ET column ) ------------------ Among my most satisfying viewing experiences of last year was a film I should have watche...
Friday, January 17, 2025

On the parent-child relationship in Girls will be Girls

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( Wrote this piece about Shuchi Talati’s excellent new film for Economic Times ) ------------------- Often, our expectations for a film are ...
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Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Akimitsu Takagi's crime fiction, in translation

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A classic locked-room mystery that I enjoyed very much: Akimitsu Takagi’s The Noh Mask Murder , originally published in 1949 and just transl...
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