Aakshi Magazine

Academic writing:

“Loving but critical: The empathetic gaze of Luck By Chance.” in ReFocus: The Films of Zoya Akhtar, edited by Aakshi Magazine and Amber Shields, 21- 38 (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).

“A language of its own: The songs in the films of Mani Ratnam.” in Musicals at the Margins: Genre, Boundaries, Canon, edited by Martha Shearer and Julie Lobalzo Wright, 144-157 (Bloomsbury, 2021).

“Tum Toh Mohammed Rafi Nikle: The song sequence in contemporary Hindi cinema.” South Asian Popular Culture Volume 17, Issue 2 (2019): 133-144.

“Ghoul: Challenging the category of the ‘Nationalist Muslim’.” Economic and Political Weekly Volume 53, Issue 45 (2018).

Newspaper articles and essays:

In an age of cynicism, Monia, O my Darling’s sincerity is worth cherishing, The Indian Express, 23 November 2022.

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/monica-o-my-darling-vasant-bala-rajkummar-rao-huma-8285424/

What a Robot from Kerala, Bombay High Court, French and Indian films tell us about domestic labour, The Indian Express, 30 October 2022.

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/robot-from-kerala-bombay-high-court-and-french-and-indian-films-tell-domestic-labour-8239044/

What the success of Vikram Vedha says about the multiplex, The Indian Express, 7 October 2022.

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/what-success-of-vikram-vedha-says-about-failure-of-multiplex-8195860/

With Brahmastra, a more Hinduised Bollywood, The Indian Express, 18 September 2022.

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/with-brahmastra-a-more-hindu-ised-bollywood-8158355/

‘Dobaaraa’ does not feel like an Anurag Kashyap film. And that is good, The Indian Express, 31 August 2022.

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/dobaaraa-dors-not-feel-like-an-anurag-kashyap-film-8123184/

Lata Mangeshkar Heroine off-screen, The Indian Express, 9 February 2022.

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/lata-mangeshkar-singer-death- stardom-7764762/

Some films find you, Popula, 21 September 2021.

https://popula.com/2021/09/21/some-films-find-you/

Their own selves, The Indian Express, 14 March 2021.

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/bombay-begums-netflixalankrita-shrivastava-7225963/.

Odd Men Out, Verve Magazine, December 2020.

https://vervemagazine.in/cinemaissue/#/gulabo-sitabo-masculinity

The Real Horror Film, The Indian Express, 8 July 2020.

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/the-real-horror-film6494907/

Grocery-store Nationalism, Popula, 30 January 2019.

https://popula.com/2019/01/30/grocery-store-nationalism/.

Unlikely Lessons from Bollywood, The Hindu, 18 August 2017.

https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/unlikely-lessons-from-bollywood/article19518947.ece

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Books:

ReFocus: The Films of Zoya Akhtar, edited by Aakshi Magazine and Amber Shields (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).

Book link – https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus-the-films-of-zoya-akhtar.html