Alternative Cinemas, Art Cinemas, Independent Cinemas, Cinephilia, Film Festivals, Media Industries, Transnationalism, Visual Cultures, Gender and Cinema, Migration and Diaspora

Journals

'Precarious Lives in Ivan Ayr’s Soni (2018) and Milestone (2020)' in South Asian Popular Culture, Routledge (forthcoming)

'Nowhere to Belong: Migration Narratives in Eeb Allay Oo! (2019) and Gamak Ghar (2019)’ in Studies in South Asian Film and Media, Vol 14, No 1, December 2022, 3-17, Intellect Books

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/safm_00053_1

'At Home in the World: Co-productions and Indian Alternative Cinema' in Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies, Vol 11 No 2 December 2020, 123-145, Sage Journals

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0974927620983941

Review of Modernism by Other Means: The Films of Amit Dutta, by Srikanth Srinivasan in Studies in South Asian Film and Media, Vol 13, No 1, pp 59-62, Intellect Books, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/safm_00049_5

Book Chapters

'Women Producing Cinema: Guneet Monga and the Rise of the Independent Global Producer in India' in Women in Contemporary Indian Films & Media: Representations and Responses, Aysha Viswamohan (Ed), 153-167, Routledge, December 2024

'Remoulding the Alternative: Style and Aesthetics of Contemporary Alternative Indian Cinemas' in South Asia in Alternative Cinema(s), Vivek Sachdeva, Chandrakant Langare, Hariprasad Athanickal (Eds.), Routledge (forthcoming) 

Other

Review of Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy: Speaking Truth to Power, Edited by Rashi Bhargava and Richa Chilana in Doingsociology.org, 9 June, 2024

Column: Reimagining Parallel Cinema, The Week Magazine, Malayala Manorama Press, June 12, p. 71-72, 2022

Book Discussion of Anubha Yadav’s Scripting Bollywood, Galp Lok, 2021

1. Co-Investigator: Connecting Creative Industries and Cultural Heritage: India-UK Film Festival Federation, Youth Curation and Community Co-creation, 2024-27 

Funded by: UKRI Art and Humanities Research Council

Principal Investigator (Dr. Ashvin Devasundaram, Queen Mary University of London)

2. “Lights, Camera, and Time for Action”: Recasting Gender Equality Compliant Hindi Cinema (2021-23)

Funded by: U.S Consulate, Mumbai

Sub project:

Scripting Change: Women Screenwriters in Contemporary Hindi Cinema 

This research project engaged with the role of women screenwriters in the Hindi Film industry. Screenplay and dialogue writers have often been overlooked in India, not just in terms of visibility in a film’s marketing and publicity or media interest but also by the industry where the labour of writing a script has often not been given its due. Within the contemporary period, Hindi cinema has witnessed several women screenplay writers emerge telling stories with a renewed focus on questions of gender roles in society. The study engaged with screenwriters, their craft and process of writing as well as their position within a largely male-dominated industry and the pressures they face therein regarding conformity.

Project Report: https://gendercinema.tiss.edu/

Project Presentation@PIFF 2023 (Pune International Film Festival)

Understanding Indian Cinemas (Sem III)

Reading Film (Sem II and CBCS)

Film Appreciation (Sem I)

Image Making II (Documentary)

MCS Media Project

MCS Research Project

FC: Contemporary Media Ecologies (co-teaching)