On cruising in soft-porn theaters, the figure of the pathetic man, and Barzakh. My Counter Culture column for Frontline .

My essay this morning in The Guardian's fabulous "long read" on impressions from a recent visit to Israel theguardian.com/world/article/…

#CounterCulture | Through his wretchedness, the pathetic man expresses the limits of desirability—the limits beyond which he is irretrievably lost to desire, to heroism, to that centralising glamorous force. Prathyush Parasuraman writes. frontline.thehindu.com/columns/cinema…

#CounterCulture | At the International Documentary and Short Film Festival held in #Kerala every year, the audience is hammered down for a week by raw courage. Prathyush Parasuraman writes. frontline.thehindu.com/columns/counte…

At Berlinale, had written about PS Vinothraj’s Kottukkaali, a cleverly written, meandering film (in the best possible way), with Anna Ben who turns her face into an unyielding site of protest. Kottukkaali is in theaters. filmcompanion.in/film-festivals…

What happens when storytellers have to take up the role of archivists? Do we lose them to righteousness? Do we make manifestos instead of movies? My Counter Culture column for Frontline , a dispatch from the recently concluded Intl Docu & Short Film Festival of Kerala.

You need a great Film Projectionist to project Sholay at Regal on 31st August at 5.30pm….No one like “Aslam” with 50 years of experience and winner of the FHF Life time award for Fiilm Projection 2023…

#ASuitableCorner with Prathyush Parasuraman “This is a top-shot, because at eye-level, my desk is at best, an unenviable mess…I sit directly under the fan, facing the light, because when the light of day fades, so do my intentions”, he tells us. Stay tuned with us every Friday for more!

Sholay bade parde par—CinemaScope, Stereophonic—is a reminder of what makes an action film iconic. Presence. The bodies in fights don’t become a crowd. Each is given space for its own demise—falling off horses, rolling down hills, gun-shot, slammed. A collective headrush.

Can poetry survive translation? ⁦Prathyush Parasuraman⁩ gives us an insightful Sunday read. frontline.thehindu.com/columns/art-co…

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