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The Fan Page Project

Fandoms are sustained by fan pages. From solo to shippers, updates to edits. The ecosystem of any fan community is shaped by the efforts of fan page owners. In The Fan Page Project, we dive into fandom collectives, one fan page at a time. Interviews by Anushka Bidani. X. In…Continue reading “The Fan Page Project”

[ISSUE II] Foreword by Paridhi Puri

In her Introduction to Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column, Anita Desai wrote, “In India, the past never disappears.…

Column By Chance by Spandana

7 Dec 20257 Dec 2025

The story of me and my film column on our first anniversary Frames and Flashes turns one today! As I sit down to write this anniversary column, I feel a…

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Jinhe Naaz Hai Hind Par (Pyaasa, 1957): Between the Craftsmanship of Sahir Ludhianvi & the Genius of Guru Dutt by Zainab S Qazi

30 Nov 20253 Dec 2025

It is one's miserable fate to watch something as reflective as Pyaasa (1957) for the first time in the centenary year of Guru Dutt, nearly seventy years after the film's…

Writing About Sholay by Purbasha Roy

18 Nov 20253 Dec 2025

In Jaipur’s Raj Mandir Cinema, a special screening of Ramesh Sippy’s blockbuster film Sholay was held in August on the completion of 50 years of its release. IIFA's 25th edition…

In conversation with A🍉. (callaedit) by Anushka Bidani

26 Sep 202526 Sep 2025

A🍉. (callaedit) Instagram: @callaedit Anushka Bidani: I noticed that your earliest edits revolved around Indian Television (ITV) shows. What inspired you to start watching and editing them? A🍉. (callaedit): As I…

TINY LETTERS: VOL. 1 by Anushka Bidani

19 Sep 202519 Sep 2025

Dear friend, Now I need to write this quickly before the rainlight of Melbourne throws any more tempting shadows onto my page. I have woken up to my sixty-eighth morning…

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Smiling with a burnt heart by Spandana

14 Sep 20253 Dec 2025

In Dino and Qayde Se from Anurag Basu’s Metro films are the soundtracks of my one-sided love story Metro… In Dino is on Netflix. As is its spiritual prequel, Life…

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Hoping Against Hope In The Universe of “The Teacher Who Promised The Sea” by Zainab S Qazi

12 Sep 202512 Sep 2025

Forgetting is a burdensome task; the act is taxing, demanding more than you can possibly offer. More so, if it is linked with the sense of sight, where each detail…

I was an extra on “Jason and the Argonauts” by Simon Collinson

29 Aug 202529 Aug 2025

Being in films is not all glamour.I should know I've been in a few.But I never got a lead role or even a credit.I guess my most famous role was…

Critical Analysis

In Paris, to not be: An essay on how the cultural gaze shapes women’s cinematic journeys by Muskaan Chaudhary

21 Aug 202521 Aug 2025

There are few industries as familiar with stories of love as Bollywood. It would not be going too far to bet that for every bright covered chick lit novel, there…

Suddenly, I’m not Half the Man I Used to Be by Tracy Neis

14 Aug 202514 Aug 2025

Illustration by Tracy Neis One morning, as Paul McCartney was waking up from an anxious dream, he discovered that he had been changed overnight into a human-sized beetle. He lay…