Prathyush Parasuraman
@pruhthyush
Culture & criticism at @THRIndia_ @frontline_india Author of On Beauty: The Cinema of Sanjay Leela Bhansali
If @anupamachopra and @baradwajrangan are to be believed, your boy has written a banging book. Now pre-order: amzn.in/d/7UW5zAc
“His [Gaiety-Galaxy] clientele, passionate to a fault, were given to taking out their frustrations over a bad movie by ripping up his upholstery: property damage as film criticism. He had appointed a resident tailor...to repair the constant damage.” supriyan.substack.com/p/lore
Odeh just died. Murdered.
An Israeli settler just shot Odeh Hadalin in the lungs, a remarkable activist who helped us film No Other Land in Masafer Yatta. Residents identified Yinon Levi, sanctioned by the EU and US, as the shooter. This is him in the video firing like crazy.
When will filmmakers begin to see women as bodies that can exist outside sexual trauma? Some thoughts on Maareesan, a road trip film with a rotten kernel. hollywoodreporterindia.com/reviews/theatr…
On ugliness and ugly things and ugly desires. frontline.thehindu.com/columns/ambani…
Have been thinking about ugly things for a while—Balenciaga crocs, Labubus, Ambani wedding anniversary celebrations. This edition's Counter Culture column is about how we have even turned ugliness into a commodity, an aspiration. For @frontline_india frontline.thehindu.com/columns/ambani…
“Love, dignity, freedom, creativity, respect for ourselves and for others. If, in the coming world … these principles are the innate foundations of that which makes human life worthwhile. For everything else, there’s Dubai.”
I wrote about Dubai, for @NewLeftReview Sidecar newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…
Thug Life’s central paradox—it wants to express the futility of violence; it also wants to be Mani Ratnam’s sleekest work yet. Sagar asks a great question here—can a film’s style undo its very premise?
Finally caught Thug Life. Had some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/antibrevit…
"What three scenes can’t do, one song can do.” Mohit Suri talks about #Saiyaara, his upcoming film starring debutantes #AhaanPanday and #AneetPadda, and why music often outlives its films. Read the full interview by @pruhthyush here. hollywoodreporterindia.com/features/inter…
One of my favourite conversations yet. At this year's @swaindiaorg conference spoke to some of the most exciting filmmakers today: #VivekAthreya,#CPremKumar, @hemanthrao11 & Christo Tomy about the state of mainstream cinema, the allure of Bollywood & more youtube.com/watch?v=yCRXrf…
#CounterCulture | Umrao Jaan—a film that comes at the intersection of the courtesan film & the Muslim social—is a relic of a time that can only be read through nostalgia. @pruhthyush writes. frontline.thehindu.com/columns/tawaif…
Celebrating #GuruDutt’s birth centenary, here are five frames from his filmography that captures the wide, often playful, often pathetic quality that emerges when seen as a whole. Read the full list by @pruhthyush here. hollywoodreporterindia.com/features/insig…
Why is Nagesh Kukunoor, the defiant voice of the 2000s, chasing defanged political shows on streaming? Spoke to him about ‘The Hunt: The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination’ and his journey with streaming, when he poignantly tells me “It diluted my voice”. hollywoodreporterindia.com/features/inter…
Nostalgia has curdled our minds. Counter Culture column, on Umrao Jaan, for @frontline_india frontline.thehindu.com/columns/tawaif…
"The initial years were the most exciting phase of my life. I wrote the first season of City of Dreams with zero censorship." Read @pruhthyush's full interview with #NageshKukunoor here. #thehuntonsonyliv hollywoodreporterindia.com/features/inter…
“A.I. will teach us how to “prompt” with increasing precision, but never to yearn with patient attention, never to relish the dark or adorn it with research and guesswork and gossip, to let our minds gallop after one another, the living and the dead.” nytimes.com/2025/06/13/mag…
