Personal Essay 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…
Critical Analysis… 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…
Personal Essay 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…
Interview In conversation with A🍉. (callaedit) by Anushka Bidani 26 Sep 202512 May 2026 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…
Letter TINY LETTERS: VOL. 1 by Anushka Bidani 19 Sep 20255 Aug 2026 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…
Critical Analysis… 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…
Critical Analysis… 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…
Fanfiction 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…
Fanfiction… 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…