literally five minutes into the robbie williams film and im more entertained than i was watching all of a complete unknown. wild stuff

in a year full of big budget ordeals, some films have chosen to express themselves through conversations. my friends Sanjeet and Amartya discuss I Want to Talk by Soojit Sircar and Meiyazhagan by C Prem Kumar and their differing routes to the heart on Queen is Dead open.spotify.com/episode/2aU9...

twas an absolute honour to be on and cause (and experience) a lot of chaos. so happy to have met and gotten to spend time with three amazing people and talk films. do check it out for a lot of great recommendations, general cinephilia and all the drama!

A new episode of the Bollywood Drafts podcast is out! This time, @vertigay314.bsky.social asked me, @limjaeseven.bsky.social, and Suchin Mehrotra to pick the 10 best Netflix Original Hindi films. The end of the episode is wild, and it's all my fault! bollywood-drafts.pinecast.co/episode/947a...

i continue to keep this website open on my browser despite the fact that i never know what to post on here

will i manage to do something productive today? (no. the answer is always no.)

@/terminalcinema hosts me, @/amartya25 @/aryantalksfilm and @/prakhar_islatetotheparty (all on ig) on 'Queen is Dead' to talk all things Payal Kapadia: her short films, first feature and of course All We Imagine as Light and also do some discourse! open.spotify.com/episode/319Y...

did AWIAL discourse on twitter hope it wasnt a mistake—

as a queer man, ive always been drawn to a gentler masculinity that is often ostracised by society, but still manages to find a place in films with actors like srk and last year, ranveer singh Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahani and the Queer Masculinities of Straight Men 🧵

posting here first before i figure out if i wanna put it on twt or not cause i have irls on there but I TOPPED MY CINEMAS COURSE AAAAAH

god this is so sublime

rewatching the phantom of the opera recording from 2011 to cleanse my soul after the absolute trash ive been subjected to with all these hollywood movie musicals recently

took me a solid year and a half but finally found a way to purchase the book in which MY OWN PAPER WAS PUBLISHED god these people make you suffer just to get access to your own bloody work

suffered through animal twice in a week, scored 9/10 for the presentation, abhi paper ka kitna milta hai dekhna padega. was it worth it? god only knows

in my years doing research on the representation of queerness on the big screen, i've seen many papers cite rohit and aman's dynamic as a "negative stereotype" of gayness, and i think it really misses the point of what the film does Kal Ho Naa Ho: In Defence of Queer Humour 🧵

should i repost my new thread here 👀?

this will become a film account the day i am put out of misery of having to watch terrible films either for class or my mental health and can start talking about movies that don't make me want to pull my hair out

couldn't find my comfy tracks so i'm currently freezing my calves off in half pants—

sad i didn't get to do noirvember because of end sem shenaniganry, hopefully will watch a couple before the end of the month (for a very exciting project wink wink)

the one thing i love about delhi winter is that i get to wear my favourite sweater which is the coziest thing in the world

this!

slowposter banne ki aadat nahi hai, kuch na kuch toh bolna hi padega smh

just realised i hadn't mentioned tees maar khan here till this very moment, matlab abhi hua account properly inaugurate

takes too much energy to come up with two things to say tbh

can't believe my notoriously hard to please professor said that my presentation was exactly the kind of thing he was expecting (didn't say that to anyone else) there's no way—

aaah so excited for this!

An incident happened to me in February 2022 that stayed in my head until I wrote this story in October that year. And now almost two years later, here’s my first published short story, Food of the Gods, at Usawa Literary Review. (trigger warnings in next post) t.co/DsFpAXPuAc

the fact that i've come to the point where i can listen to/read my work months after it has come out is insane because usually i'd be dying of cringe but now im low-key proud of myself

if this is my alterego should i only post the good films i watch on here? phir toh tl khaali hi pad jaayega—

back on here over a year later to eventually forget about it again and go back to twitter

kinda forgot this app existed for two days—

what being pan-poly looks like for me

found this on my college's International Relations Department notice board

staying up till 2am doing work I had a month to complete when i have to wake up early in the morning is just me living college life to the fullest

calling my girlfriend after a long day just to listen to her gossip about her friends and the things happening in her life is my favourite way to unwind

wouldn't be an academic conference without ethno-nationalist religious propaganda, would it?

im so not ready for weirdly puritanical genzs to start age gap discourse again over chris evans getting married. just let the two consenting adults be.

growing up as an afab trans person in a "liberal" household reminds you of how arbitrary so many gendered rules are. for example: i was allowed to wear western formals but never allowed to tuck my shirt into pants, which will never stop being absurd to me

being into both leftie politics and k-pop exposes you to the wildest imaginable discources at all times

not a lot of people on here so the simultaneous urge to say dumb stuff and say nothing at all is strong

ever 9/11 i am reminded that them americans mean the 11th of september and not the 9th of november

didn't realise getting a degree in philosophy would mean utterly despising my educators so now I use what ive learned to rationalise away my anger

oh look, another social media site for me to like stuff and not say much (hopefully)