Also the only man to call out the Indian government for programming the dimestore Hindutva propaganda film Kashmir Files (2022) in the official selection at the International Film Festival of India (he was head of the jury). Got called out in turn by his own government “for insulting his hosts”.
In all seriousness, The Mummy plays so well against contemporary debates about the death of cinema and the millennial preoccupation with the 19th century fin de siècle that shaped the medium. Would make an excellent double bill with Coppola’s Dracula.
India's rural job guarantee is being dismantled. And yet, from the “Save MGNREGA” nationwide agitations to defiant resolutions passed in thousands of Gram Sabhas, the people of India are actively fighting to reclaim their right to work.
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Thank you so much @theguardian.com for this legacy!
Great, we’re doing this again
This guy looks like if Ebon Moss-Bachrach were a Chad
Apart from the usual critique, AI companies proving themselves as poor at reading what actually works in “regional” markets as Hollywood did a decade before. Fox Searchlight and Disney took major risks with Ranbir Kapoor only to have to literally quit the India market after those films bombed.
Sinister (2012). Also The Babadook is all about protocinematic horrors.
Meanwhile, the guy who issued the literal call-to-arms that kicked off the "riots" (really pogroms) is a cabinet minister.
Ditto for Nehruvian elites.
Missing the message for the medium
Also shows you what they think of how non-white diasporas IN America should identify.
The New York f**** Times could have run the faintest of Google searches on the East African Gujarati diaspora before publishing its hit piece. But given its stunning ability to be on the wrong side of absolutely everything, they probably don’t consider him Gujarati cos he’s Muslim.
Barnacle complex 💀
No written word can do justice to the power and beauty of the stories I heard in Kashmir. But I tried. Thrilled to announce the India edition of my book, with lovely cover art by Basita Shah, is out on 7th July. Pre-orders here: amzn.in/d/7NuVhNn @westlandbooks.bsky.social