Save the date! Celebrating Guru Dutt and Ritwik Ghatak at 100

Rahul, this broke my heart! Thank you for allowing a speck of me to be part of your grief!

Ogilvy’s tribute for Piyush Pandey - beautifully written!

The full schedule of "Varieties of Melodrama: Guru Dutt and Ritwik Ghatak @ 100." Please join us if you are in the area

Excited for this screening in #Trivandrum tomorrow. The ASHA workers strike ended two days ago after nine months so it will be a sort of celebration. Do come Trivandrum folks!

All these stories needs to be revisited. Equal pay whiners won't have any idea about these things.

November 14th. youtu.be/34CCpyNUqOc

"Writing is rewriting and rethinking," he said. "And you can't learn to wrestle without doing it again and again and again, until it's an instinct, until it's a reflex." John Irving

Starting today! Thanks to Sohini Sengupta for this beautiful poster

Brilliant Gauri Gill took these viral photos of Mira Nair and Zohran Kwame Mamdani. She's being ripped off, they're being circulated without credit. These have her name on, let's share these and fix it.

It has been so long fighting this battle, and indie makers and their art often get overlooked in the wider cinema space. Keep at it, Kanu, your effort truly matters. Everyone should come forward and support small meaningful cinema by asking their theatres to give these films a

AGRA is NOT an invisible film. Our trailer & promos have already crossed 1.5M+ organic views, we’ve received coverage from 25+ major outlets (India Today, Scroll, NDTV, Le Monde, Forbes), and there’s been massive social buzz — all without a marketing budget.

Latest update as of 8pm, Friday. All the screens where ‘Agra’ is playing. This is it. You can watch the film here, and only here, as of now. Please amplify, and let’s make this count 🙏🙏

Update as of 8pm, Saturday. Despite a full day of trying, no more screens added. All the screens where ‘Agra’ is playing are attached below. I’m aware that some are in the middle of nowhere. But this is it. It’s in your hands now. YOU THE AUDIENCE. Please amplify and go watch 🙏

New short piece on the relation between cinema and the state for Critical Collective's November newsletter in which I talk about its history from state sponsored cinema all the way to Chhaava or the use of Naatu Naatu in a BJP campaign song

AMERICAN WOMAN: REFRAMING '70s CINEMA has begun at MoMI! 27 films, with special guests galore, including Barbara Kopple, Claudia Weill, Muffie Meyer, Melissa Anderson, and much more! Today, 35mm KLUTE with legendary critic Molly Haskell! Read full lineup: movingimage.org/series/america…

4 spinners, 2 wicketkeeper-batters, 3 specialist batters. 6 bowlers. Gill’s injury left 2 specialist batters. Gambhir’s a cricketing mystic, playing 4 dimensional chess in a 3 dimensional world.

Update: Six PVR screens added from Monday. 1 in Mumbai, 4 in Delhi, 1 in Bangalore. Maybe some coming in Hyderabad and Kolkata. Please spread the word and go watch. This is not the end. This is the beginning. They need to know audiences want this film 🙏🙏

Wonderful to see this solidarity among independent film makers. It may have been sparked by Kanu Behl’s Agra not being given enough screens, but this is a problem that all independent filmmakers face every time their film is blanked from our screening choices and spaces

My article entitled "Beyond cut, copy and paste: How editors stitch Bollywood's disability affect" is published in European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS). Not open-access. Please feel free to contact me, and I will share. doi.org/10.1177/136754… #mediastudies #disability #gender #SouthAsia