Media coverage


Interview with BlogAdda (April 2010)

Interview with BookChums (February 2011)

An interview with Spark magazine (PDF version here)

Media coverage of Jaane bhi do Yaaro: Seriously Funny Since 1983

Interview with NDTV Good Times (YouTube link here)


Interview with UTV Bloomberg (YouTube link here)


Reliving the madness (my essay for Caravan magazine about the writing of the book)

Excellent long review of the three books, by Annie Zaidi

Bollywood Hungama.com video review



Time Out Mumbai article on the Harper Collins film series (and a longer version on Uday Bhatia's blog)

A cult above - my piece for the Hindustan Times (and a short accompanying review they carried)

The Hindu review by Suresh Kohli


The Pioneer review by Derek Bose




The anatomy of a movie - Mint Lounge on the film books

Seriously readable - IBN Live review

Funny tale - Business Standard review

फिर एक "जाने भी दो यारों" की तलाश में - Mihir Pandya's blog

Seriously Endearing since 2010 - Svetlana Naudiyal in Projectorhead

Wide Screen journal review (PDF format)


First City feature on the film series (click image to enlarge)



Tehelka review

South Asia Daily interview with Mayank Chhaya:
Part 1
Part 2

Sakaal Times review

uRead review

Zee News.com

The Telegraph


Media coverage of The Popcorn Essayists: What Movies do to Writers

How movies have moved us - wonderful long review by Abhimanyu Das in The Sunday Guardian

Goodbye cinema, hello cinephilia - J Jagannath's review in Business Standard



Author, auteur - Baradwaj Rangan's review in Tehelka

"An essential buy" - Saurabh Kumar Shahi in The Sunday Indian

Losing it at the movies - Amulya Gopalakrishnan's review in The Indian Express

Frames of fantasy - Vijay Nair in the Hindu Literary Review

Scripting out Cinematic Appeal - Jaya Bhattacharji Rose in Businessworld

India Reloaded.TV review

When the lights dim - Sanjukta Sharma in Mint Lounge



Twist karaoed - Bhaichand Patel in Outlook

Mail Today blurb











CNN-IBN coverage   





From the launch at India Habitat Centre, Delhi