Film Essays

Published Film Essays

Towards and Away from Home: Registers of Contemporary Cinema from DarbhangaCritical Collective (February 2024)

 

Kathal and Dahaad: The Disappearance and Reclamation of Invisible Women, Critical Collective (August 2023)

 

Love and Longing in Sunday and My Mother’s Girlfriend, High on Films (August 2023)

 

All That Breathes and ‘Communities of Air’Seminar Magazine (July 2023)

 

The Haunted Women of New Hindi Horror Cinema, Cover story, Mint Lounge (December 2022)

 

Lights, Camera, Transition: Gamak Ghar and Barah by Barah, The Critical Collective and PhotoSouthAsia; one of the winners of the Second Young Writers Award in Lens Based Practices supported by the Critical Collective and MurthyNAYAK Foundation (August 2022) 

 

Bhonsle: Of Home and Belonging, Fathers and Sons, God and ManThe Punch Magazine (July 2020) 

 

Shoojit Sircars Gulabo Sitabo: A Satirical Tale Of Heritage And HistoryOutlook Magazine (May 2020)

 

Ajji Film Review: The Retelling Of Red Riding Hood We Never Expected Feminism in India (May 2018)

 

7 Great Stop-Motion Animation Films You Must See, Cinemaholic (December 2017)

 

 Three 2017 Bollywood films and what they taught us about genderCafé Dissensus Everyday (December 2017)

 

Victoria and AbdulThe Empire Rewrites Itself BackCountercurrents.Org (November 2017)

 

Between Arrivals and Departures—A Tasteful Labour of Love, Coldnoon: International Journal of Travel Writing and Travel Cultures  (October 2017)

 

The Gravity of NewtonKafila (October 2017)

 

Why it is Time to Revisit the Films of Saeed Akhtar Mirza, the ‘Leftist Sufi’Café Dissensus Everyday (September 2017)

  

Trapped—Deconstructing HeavenColdnoon: International Journal of Travel Writing and Travel Cultures (August 2017)

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