Rahul Desai

Schitt's Creek will (hopefully) win Emmys next week, but the show has meant the world to me at a time the world has lost a little meaning. Wrote a personal-ish essay about why I was destined to discover the Rose family during this pandemic. Read: filmcompanion.in/streaming/schi…

Re-sharing my review of Saiyaara, a sweeping romantic drama I fully submitted to: hollywoodreporterindia.com/reviews/theatr…

In a break from regular programming (reviews), I wrote about my mother, the onset of her Alzheimer's, the trauma of memory, and her courage to forget: hyperbola86.blogspot.com/2025/06/forget…

"Sarzameen" refuses to touch grass because there's a lot of snow in the film. Review: hollywoodreporterindia.com/reviews/stream…

The Fantastic Four: First Steps works better without the unfilmable MCU stuff. Like Vanessa Kirby doing a neat "Pieces of a Woman" bit. Review: ottplay.com/features/the-f…

The hattrick of mediocre Hindi titles this week is completed by MANDALA MURDERS, an ambitious but weirdly designed and worryingly nutty 8-episode series about...I don't really know yet. Review: hollywoodreporterindia.com/reviews/stream…

It should be impossible to make a dull show with actors like Vineet Kumar Singh and Rajshri Deshpande. But RANGEEN defies the odds. Review: hollywoodreporterindia.com/reviews/stream…

"In downgrading reviews, publications yield to the temptation of corporatized impersonality, just as much as tightly formatted and studio-governed Hollywood movies do."

This might be the first time yall have ASKED for a LONG REVIEW, toh here we are - ➡️youtube.com/live/i45ZgoEu1… Going live on this link in an hour with @ReelReptile @yooday and @MadameSengupta , ajaao.

There goes our October.

have been feeling disillusioned about writing for a while; difficult not to, given the current times, etc. But this week felt different. Enjoyed writing and realised there is nothing else I can (or want to) do. Here's my pieces:

Anupam Kher's "Tanvi the Great" is centered on an autistic young woman, but somehow the protagonist of the film is patriotism. Review: hollywoodreporterindia.com/reviews/theatr…

The sort of make-heartbreak-great-again love story I've always enjoyed. A star is born. Review, Saiyaara: hollywoodreporterindia.com/reviews/theatr…

Picture of the Astronomer CEO & the Head of HR at the weekly staff meeting.

Did some sports writing after a while. Men's tennis has entered the future. On the Sinner-Alcaraz rivalry and the Challengers-coded reactions they elicit: ottplay.com/sports/news/th…

beautiful written here and @ReelReptile very few of them who can put what he felt into words like that, udaan is easily in my top 3 movies of all time from bollywood . I loved this part btw