Medium Blog
On my Medium Blog, I write about movies and TV shows. But these essays are not just reviews. I analyse narrative structure, character development, and tropes, and ultimately, ponder on what makes a good story. Here, you can find a selection of my best blog posts
Published on Babel.
Here, I talk about language: how we represent them in our films, how we understand each other, and what does "language barrier" mean in today's context of world cinema.
Published in Story Lamp Reviews.
"What's more loving? Forty years, fifty years of a gilded life? Or seventy, eighty years of anxiety, tribulation, and heartache?"
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Mike Flanagan's 'The Fall of The House of Usher' asks some empathetic questions all while maintaining an exciting symmetry
Did the finale of Killing Eve make you want to scream into the void? In this blog post, I write about my take on the Will They/Won't They trope.
The trailer of the Hindi film Sharmaji Namkeen led me into a stream of conciousness-esque essay about what it means for the intergrity of a story when an actor dies before the film is completed.
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There is no easy way to say, "I'm watching this show called The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in The Window." Read on to see why I love this title.
I do a deep dive into the Hindi film Gehraiyaan that just a couple of years ago caused much controversy. What is this film actually about?
The Hindi film industry is seeing a rampant trend of remakes. In this post, I study the remakes trend and wonder if a movie has a place and a time.