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Films & Writing #30: Rahul Desai and Pankaj Sachdeva

By |April 17th, 2024|Analysis, Podcasts|

Rahul Desai and Pankaj Sachdeva do their 30th Writers' podcast together.

Love Hostel: No country for lovers

By |March 14th, 2023|Analysis|

Pankaj Sachdeva writes about one of the most underrated Hindi films of 2022, Love Hostel.

Rahul Desai’s September watch-list

By |September 11th, 2022|movies we loved|

Rahul Desai's list of September titles to watch.

IIF Podcast: ANOTHER ROUND

By |June 7th, 2021|Analysis, Podcasts|

Sober film critics Rahul Desai and Tanul Thakur discuss Thomas Vinterberg's Oscar-winning ANOTHER ROUND.

The man at the dining table

By |July 27th, 2020|Critics Speak, frontslider|

A personal essay by a film critic about dinners and dining tables.

Critic Diaries: A copy+paste tale

By |June 6th, 2020|Critics Speak, News, NewsDisplaySmall|

A film critic finds that a social media user has been passing off several published movie reviews as his own Facebook reviews. What happens next?

Weeks without days

By |April 14th, 2020|Critics Speak, reviews, Young Critics|

With the pandemic-stricken world in lockdown, young critic Rachit Raj mourns a life without the movies.

It’s really happening

By |March 23rd, 2020|Critics Speak|

Rahul Desai muses on a life beyond films...in the time of the Coronavirus pandemic and social isolation.

In conversation with Utpal Borpujari

By |May 4th, 2019|Critics Speak, Interviews, InterviewsDisplayLarge|

Our chat with award-winning film critic, curator and filmmaker Utpal Borpujari about the evolution of North-Eastern cinema and the voices he aspires to represent.

In Conversation with Anupama Chopra

By |October 25th, 2018|Critics Speak, Interviews|

On the eve of the 20th edition of the JIO MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, we speak to the captain of the ship herself: the multifaceted Anupama Chopra.

Meenakshi Shedde: The Poetics Of Curation

By |August 29th, 2017|Critics Speak, Film Festivals, Interviews|

Priya Bhattacharji picks the brain of renowned Indian film curator and critic, Meenakshi Shedde, about her specialist field, career, changing perspectives and the perception of Indian cinema across the globe.

Discovering New World Cinema In India

By |June 21st, 2016|Film Festivals, Interviews|

A chat with senior journalist, curator and film critic Meenakshi Shedde, about the 'Indian Film Appreciation Workshop' she is conducting this weekend with Avid Learning -- and the need for more such initiatives.

Conversations With Baradwaj Rangan

By |March 6th, 2016|Critics Speak, Interviews|

Tanul Thakur and Rahul Desai set out to interview -- and explore the vast intellect of -- film critic and 'The Hindu' Senior Deputy Editor Baradwaj Rangan, one of Indian cinema's foremost thinkers and definitive voices.


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