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[ Since I’ve been having so many conversations lately about the perils of subtextual analysis, I thought it might be fun to do a “mix and ma...

Advance notice for Delhiites about the Popcorn Essayists book launch: Samit Basu, yours truly and a handful of popcorn essayists will be ta...

Watching Gulzar’s 1972 film Koshish the other day, I was reminded that even when a movie's tone is predominantly sombre, a light interl...

I was very pleased to read this article by Mihir Pandya, written for the Hindi magazine Kathadesh - not just because he says kind things a...

The Popcorn Essayists: What Movies do to Writers is now available on Flipkart , so get thee forth and order copies for yourselves, your fri...

Hard as it is to believe, we are nearing the hundredth anniversary of the start of one of the most important movie careers ever. A while ago...

What happens when you gather a line-up of established authors who don't write professionally about cinema and ask them for personal essa...

Off to Jaipur for the lit-fest soon and won't be online much till the 25th, so here are a few reminders/notes about the fest and other ...

Watching a short film titled Andheri recently, I thought about movies that attempt to capture the character and pulse of a big city. Perhap...

Howard Hawks’ 1948 classic Red River is usually described as a Wild West version of Mutiny on the Bounty , and this is certainly true at a ...

The monthly magazine The Caravan is an excellent forum for long-form feature writing and journalism, and the January issue is special for m...

The daunting thing about having written a book on Jaane bhi do Yaaro is the number of encounters I’ve had with people whose relationship wi...

[ Originally did a version of this for my Yahoo! film column, but the columns are on a hiatus because of some design changes, so I decided t...