From Prathyush

On Criticism as an Act of Jilted Love

The text of the brief talk I gave last year, at the launch of my debut book, "On Beauty: The Cinema of Sanjay Leela Bhansali"

Dec 7, 2025 • Prathyush

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October 2025

On Flesh & A New (Hot) Short Story

I have a short story in an upcoming anthology "The Only City: Bombay in Eighteen Stories" + some thoughts on David Szalay's brilliant "Flesh"

Oct 6, 2025 • Prathyush

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November 2024

On Beauty & Bhansali’s Cinema—My Debut Book, On Pre-order

The book will be out in November-end. The pre-order links are live.

Nov 4, 2024 • Prathyush

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December 2022

On The Perfect Novel; A Short 2022 Dispatch

I only picked up this novel because a friend, a dearest friend, told me of a wedding toast where the book was quoted.

Dec 30, 2022 • Prathyush

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September 2022

On 1970s Bombay Cinema; A Long Read

The Angry Young Man and the Thinking Woman, between parallel cinema and the thudding success of a mythological drama.

Sep 28, 2022 • Prathyush

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August 2022

On The Satanic Verses

Thinking of Rushdie this Independence Day.

Aug 15, 2022 • Prathyush

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April 2022

On The Film That Must Not Be Named

To tell a story of violence, you have to have an unusual sensitivity to not replicate that same violence, that same poison.

Apr 25, 2022 • Prathyush

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February 2022

On Gangubai Kathiawadi And Sex Work

Embedding the movie in the context of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's art-artifice

Feb 28, 2022 • Prathyush

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On Gehraiyaan's Narrative Trickery

Digging deeper, looking at how the film uses death, infidelity, and trauma.

Feb 14, 2022 • Prathyush

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On The Lata Mangeshkar (1929-2022) Debates

The singer who began her career in 1942 passed away yesterday. How to produce a coherent, complex, and meaningful articulation of her legacy?

Feb 7, 2022 • Prathyush

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January 2022

On Nostalgia For The College Days

Hridayam, a Malayalam film, asks you to participate in its project of eliciting nostalgia, even if it does so with shameless, predictable genre…

Jan 24, 2022 • Prathyush

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On Atrangi Re's Vanishing Act

Can we cringe from the very thing we crave?

Jan 17, 2022 • Prathyush

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