Sakshi Salil Chavan

Sub-Editor (Entertainment) & Film Critic @outlookindia | Documentary Filmmaker & Mixed-Media Artist

[Sakshi Salil Chavan @sakshischavan]

Wrote about #Dhurandhar’s selectively manufactured outrage towards film critics and dissenters.

https://t.co/nkwnlt8sd0

[The Caravan @thecaravanindia]

Archvies | Over the past few years, the Indian diaspora has become political—while keeping a safe distance from the storm centre of the toxic right-wing politics it spews—and Priyanka Chopra is simply the high priestess of the blinding bourgeois hypocrisy it has come to typify. Like Chopra, the larger community of Indian immigrants to the United States and the United Kingdom have been in the news for what they choose to endorse and ignore. Indian-Americans in New Jersey recently apologised after including a bulldozer—now a symbol of anti-Muslim hate—in a parade to celebrate 75 years of Indian independence. The New York Times noted that, “to those who understood its symbolism, it was a blunt and sinister taunt later likened to a noose or a burning cross at a Ku Klux Klan rally.”

In September 2022, the diaspora in Leicester and Birmingham went on an angry march, threatening Muslim residents in the area. Wherever the diaspora is concentrated, it is now flexing its muscles to threaten South Asian Muslims. The seeds of hate sown in India have spread like a metastasising cancer, infecting all corners of the world where Indians live.

The real grift, for me, is that Chopra—like the rest of the diaspora—keeps getting away with her delusional self-narrative. As a UN ambassador, she has stood up for everyone from George Floyd to Iranian women while inviting Modi to her wedding reception. She is by no means the only actor with a broken moral compass; Bollywood’s role as a propaganda machine for the Hindu Right recently made it to the New Yorker. But she is among the few who live in a dual reality, code-switching from propagandist to civil-rights champion more easily than one slips in and out of pyjamas.

Read Vidya Krishnan's essay on how the hypocrisy of the Indian diaspora is overwhelming: https://t.co/F8taaUHbhN

[Sakshi Salil Chavan @sakshischavan]

A sublime Marathi film by @jeejivisha called ‘Tighee’ (roughly translated to “Three Of Us”) is currently playing in theatres with subtitles. Please do not miss it! Reviewed it here: https://t.co/DMuFVtCzVB

[Sakshi Salil Chavan @sakshischavan]

Had the honour to interview the fabulous and talented #MonaSingh on ‘#Kohrra’ season 2, her two-decade journey across tv, films and ott + much more! read here:

https://t.co/pPoAnEXvVC

[Anas Arif @thefilmykid]

the season finale of cult comebacks is here, with nandita das talking about manto https://t.co/ApMHArRqhj

[Vikas Yadav @vikasonorous]

Nothing in #AnubhavSinha's filmography prepares you for #Assi. It always keeps you aware of both what's happening on the screen and what's happening outside. In this drama, the director discovers a new voice.

REVIEW:

#TaapseePannu #KaniKusruti #Revathy
https://t.co/EtfUx97QX6

[Outlook India @Outlookindia]

‘Tu Yaa Main’ is the kind of romantic thriller Bollywood seldom ventures into. There’s enough experimentation here to hold the viewer’s attention even as the film openly embraces its flaws.

Sakshi Salil Chavan (@sakshischavan) writes.

https://t.co/K7fLlpLRdB

[Anas Arif @thefilmykid]

new episode of cult comebacks is with nikkhil advani, diving into his highly underrated d-day. we break down key scenes, the casting process, the beautiful bond between irrfan khan and rishi kapoor, and how the film was very different from dhurandhar. https://t.co/mm388sHXBs

[rahi anil barve @BarveRahi]

they nailed it! - https://t.co/s1LezbRKra

[Anas Arif @thefilmykid]

Cinema, a vault where trauma is locked, becomes the very key that sets it free.

On Rahi Anil Barve’s Mayasabha: https://t.co/aCdhwPrHmD

[Sakshi Salil Chavan @sakshischavan]

@BarveRahi thanks for reading and sharing my review! hoping to go for a second show as i feel like i’ve missed out on a lot of details the first time. brilliant feat accomplished, many more to come!

[Sakshi Salil Chavan @sakshischavan]

Wrote about 20 years of #RangDeBasanti and how it has shaped dissent in India whether it is through public protests or by evoking deep introspection on nationalism. https://t.co/1snjmMBqE0

[Sakshi Salil Chavan @sakshischavan]

“a film rooted in the genre of the espionage, yet centred on a protagonist who realises that love for the nation does not lie in muscle-flexing bravado. It lies, instead, in being oneself, in a country whose very cornerstone is multiplicity.”

[Anas Arif @thefilmykid]

Adbhut

On Happy Patel: Khatarnak Jasoos

https://t.co/EMDEebWPg8

[Anas Arif @thefilmykid]

As Rang De Basanti turns 20 today, I spoke to Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra about Binod Pradhan’s camerawork, Siddharth’s character, the censorship struggles the film faced, and the burning question — can it be made today? https://t.co/sMb78Wp4Qq

[Anas Arif @thefilmykid]

In the lead-up to Mayasabha, I spoke to Rahi Anil Barve, sharing an excerpt from our conversation where he spoke about Gulkanda Tales, a project he spent five years making, now with no clarity on its release. https://t.co/6ktoeTUQNo

[Vikas Yadav @vikasonorous]

Anurag Singh's #Border2 is okay, but it amounts to nothing of real significance. This is just another "Pakistan is bad" war movie populated by simplistic characters and built on a crude notion of patriotism.

REVIEW:

#Border2Review #Border2MovieReview

https://t.co/duVdYDAUE5

[Anas Arif @thefilmykid]

new episode of cult comebacks is on tashan, where i sit down for a long chat with vijay krishna acharya, who is as fun as he is insightful. and needless to say, i LOVE tashan. https://t.co/4XwlhBUeZt

[Uday Bhatia @yooday]

Excellent scary cover this week by @suchin545 on the spread of AI through Indian cinema
https://t.co/D75MQ8lRia

[Anas Arif @thefilmykid]

new episode of cult comebacks features rajat kapoor, where we talk about ankhon dekhi, existentialism, how realism can get very boring, THAT superb ensemble cast, rafey mahmood’s camerawork, and the future of independent cinema. https://t.co/cy5br668gz

[Sucharita @Su4ita]

Had the privilege of speaking with director Kaouther Ben Hania to talk about her searing film 'The Voice Of Hind Rajab', Tunisia's official submission to the International Feature Oscar.

Watch here - https://t.co/JyjRoHKu4Y

[Sakshi Salil Chavan @sakshischavan]

Had a blast watching @thevirdas’ absurdly witty spy comedy #HappyPatelKhatarnakJasoos | ⭐️ 4/5 | Reviewed it here :

https://t.co/rfvHHeqgze