Sreya Mitra

Media Studies professor, Bollywood junkie, cat mama, chai drinker, views personal, retweets not always endorsements. Pronoun: she/her

[Sreya Mitra @chutneysoul]

New publication alert: ‘You are from the country of @iamsrk. I trust you’: Shah Rukh khan, transnational stardom and counteracting the problematics of the Muslim celebrity in contemporary India https://t.co/stmYlWIenm

[Arpita Das (she/her) @arpitayodapress]

Brilliant article from the @dailystarnews archive on the Santhal Rebellion of 1855.

"Santhals in Bangladesh and in India still celebrate the Hool and remember their leaders Sidhu and Kanoo every year, their songs speak of the time when they laid down their lives for their rights. And the state continues to exploit these people, depoliticising and appropriating their history, making them footnotes and denying them agency."
https://t.co/eTwpMPxIii

[Sejal Sukhadwala @SejalSukhadwala]

Very excited about @MeherM's upcoming book on the history of Bombay through food:
https://t.co/Tz59aLcWOn

[Harsh Mander @harsh_mander]

This beautiful heart-felt essay asks if you can remain friends with people you love but who carry so much irrational hate in their hearts for Muslims
He writes with sadness, not judgment
It could be the story of literally thousands of Indians in new India
https://t.co/k5GraMAHiC

[Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊 @nilanjanaroy]

"In the months preceding my arrest, realising that time was something I was going to have in abundance soon, I had begun curating a reading list."

~ Umar Khalid, unjustly incarcerated in jail without trial for six years, on the comfort of reading.

https://t.co/wKditJkAdB

[Maktoob @MaktoobMedia]

The Once and Future Riot is likely one of the most important journalistic works chronicling the structures of power and violence through the 2013 riots.

Pallavi Pundir writes:

https://t.co/K9QtiQ5G7A

[Women Unlimited @unlimited_women]

A stone thrown in a pond is an intimate, deeply personal collection of essays and poems by fifteen critically acclaimed writers, each exploring the many registers of leaving, as well as the paradox that we never truly leave anything behind. https://t.co/ZpJfHFC2rF @mediaiou

[India Today Showbiz @Showbiz_IT]

#NaseeruddinShah's Main Vaapas Aaunga era: 75, fearless, unmatched l by @AnuragfromKashi #madeinindiaatitanstory #MainVaapasAaunga #entertainment https://t.co/vqVJGhmXiY

[Harsh @huntheharsh]

It is very easy to make and sell a film built on toxic masculinity or a bandwagon of hate against a country or a religion because the ecosystem and much of the public are conditioned to encourage it. It takes far more courage and heart to make a film that advocates love and peace, and that shows the true cost of hatred. Mai Waapas Aaunga is exactly that.
You will see dozens of Dhurandhars and Kerala Stories in cinemas every year, but you may only come across one or two Mai Waapas Aaungas in your lifetime. Don’t waste the chance to experience them.

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

“यादों में है वो ही नशा
जो मैख़ानों में।”

“सिक्के दुःखों के सभी के खोटे”

“हाथ जो भी उठा
गर्दनें जो कटीं
वो भी मैं
वो भी तू
आदमी”

“नाम भी है मेरा
शक़्ल भी है मेरी
दोनों में जो था मैं
वो नहीं”

“मुड़ के जो देखी नैन तिजोरी
दरिया ही दरिया मिले”

मैं वापस आऊँगा के हर गीत में शब्दों के रूप में ऐसे ऐसे दहकते शोले हैं कि हर ठंडा दिल नर्म हो जाये।

शुक्रिया @Irshad_Kamil.

[The Hollywood Reporter India @THRIndia_]

#MainVaapasAaunga has scripted a rare, spectacular comeback at the ticket window, registering the kind of box-office trending that is hard to come by in today's volatile theatrical market.

Read the box-office report here.

https://t.co/Kb0rm0r320

[koreanoli @koreanoli]

Mentally still here 😭❤️

[Harshit Anand @7h_anand]

It’s difficult to watch Naseer sa’ab in Main Vaapas Aaunga without thinking of Toba Tek Singh. Imtiaz has based the old and delusional Ishar Singh on Manto’s most moving character who, for very valid reasons, cannot make sense of why he had to leave his home.

[ϯαηѵεεɾ @KindaSabrful]

when Diljit asks Naseer's brother what happened, the reply 'If I tell you, you will see it through hatred without understanding the situation in which that horror unfolded' that is beautiful writing.

[The Wire @thewire_in]

How Do You Describe a Titan Like Naseeruddin Shah?

Sohini Chattopadhyay✍️
https://t.co/ntQ5KZpeBa

[ThePrintIndia @ThePrintIndia]

'Main Vaapas Aaunga is the movie India needs but doesn’t want'

Samah Qundeel @QundeelSamah, writes

#ThePrintPoV

https://t.co/Bc9raFPcaz

[Raza @alirazah]

Main Vaapas Aaunga is so important because there are very little people left from that generation to tell us the stories, to tell us about home, to tell us about the love, and to tell us what they left behind.

[Suchin Mehrotra @suchin545]

For those taken and moved by how
Main Vaapas Aaunga goes against the prevailing sentiment in favour of love, memory, empathy and connection across time....boy do I have a film for you

[rama lakshmi @RamaNewDelhi]

Main Vaapas Aaunga is a masterclass in how memory works. Don’t look at it as a hit or flop

My article
https://t.co/eszoHdxIqW

[PrayRona @PrayRona_]

Exactly a week since I watched the first day last show of Main Vaapas Aaunga, and I still can't stop obsessing over what I saw. And more importantly, what I felt. Imtiaz, Rahman, Naseer and Irshad Kamil have me in a chokehold that I simply refuse to escape. Please go watch! 😭❤️

[The Wire @thewire_in]

@seemay Main Vapas Aaunga is about confronting the past to understand why ‘Never Again’ must be the only takeaway, instead of using a wound to separate a diverse people trying to live as a composite nation.

@seemay✍️ https://t.co/zejUBRMBno