Prathyush Parasuraman

Culture & criticism at @THRIndia_ @frontline_india
Author of On Beauty: The Cinema of Sanjay Leela Bhansali

[Prathyush Parasuraman @kaagazkafool]

If @anupamachopra and @baradwajrangan are to be believed, your boy has written a banging book.

Now pre-order: https://t.co/IduY9lS5og

[Frontline @frontline_india]

NEW | From Himesh Reshammiya’s “Cap Mania” concert tour to Emraan Hashmi’s Awarapan 2, parody and irony decentre the art—exploiting the safest, most obvious strands of the past that can be replicated. Prathyush Parasuraman (@kaagazkafool) writes in his latest column.

https://t.co/ppT0xEBLeE

[Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow]

Bee escapes bonnet: there's a dismaying trend in criticism now—armchair sociology, favoring button-pushing how-"we"-live-now movies like The Drama and The Invite, and ignoring aesthetics; it reflects a writerly-editorial preference for culture, i.e., not art but the arts as news—

[Atreyee Majumder @twitatreyee]

The chapter on Jaun Elia, poetry, prophecy, and the beloved watan in Anand V Taneja's new book - The Gabriel o Madness (UC Press, 2026). #teachingtoday

[Prathyush Parasuraman @kaagazkafool]

The cleaving of lands during partition caused a cleaving of artists and art, too.

Few years ago for Independence Day wrote a piece on the art we lost and received, and how it changed the very composition of Bombay cinema.

https://t.co/5x0JC60WsK

[Vikalp Screenings @Vikalp_Prithvi]

To commemorate Umar Khalid's birthday (11 August), which was spent in prison, add your voice to the demand for releasing Khalid and Sharjeel Imam this Independence Day by watching 'Prisoner No. 626710 is Present' ('कैदी नंबर 626710 हाज़िर है').

Link: https://t.co/bBYMt2duIe

[Prathyush Parasuraman @kaagazkafool]

https://t.co/Yl0Yz2Sl5c

[Prathyush Parasuraman @kaagazkafool]

My column on the parodic public.

For @frontline_india ’s latest issue on the gen Z protests.

[Prathyush Parasuraman @kaagazkafool]

“I don’t think films fail, but budgets do.”

A small q&a with Shabana Azmi on the eve of two films of hers releasing—Awarapan 2 + Batwara 1947.

[The Hollywood Reporter India @THRIndia_]

This Independence Day has two films, backed by big production houses —#Awarapan2 and #Batwara1947 — starring #ShabanaAzmi in a central role, no small feat for the 75-year-old veteran.

Read her exclusive interview with @kaagazkafool here.

https://t.co/VcA3bn0Vq2

[Prathyush Parasuraman @kaagazkafool]

@mehta_critic There are so many variables, so many unknowns—and unknowables—it makes the whole act of even studying outer space seem foolhardy.

[Prathyush Parasuraman @kaagazkafool]

“any species powerful enough to escape its planet is powerful enough to destroy it.”

Moving piece on our “cosmic loneliness”—our inability to find intelligent life in outer space to communicate with.

https://t.co/ZVSIzictb8

[Prathyush Parasuraman @kaagazkafool]

Longform fatigue. The second season of Vadhandhi, on Amazon Prime Video, sets up a new kind of thriller, only to fall back on lazy tropes.

https://t.co/uigHNYTIA1

[Prathyush Parasuraman @kaagazkafool]

@EhrazZaman Extended ad—for what?

[Prathyush Parasuraman @kaagazkafool]

Main Vaapas Aaunga, now streaming on Netflix, is part of a larger stream of stories—Freedom At Midnight, Ikkis, and the upcoming Batwara—that are returning to partition.

A whole generation stayed away from telling that story. Another generation cannot stop telling it.

[Karuna Nundy @karunanundy]

It's incredibly important to understand this: rape is not rape because it's violent, it's rape because a woman did not agree to or want a finger, a penis or an object inserted into her and it was done anyway. That is rape.

[Prathyush Parasuraman @kaagazkafool]

https://t.co/YJYxqE6mB2

[Christine Marrewa (chrismarrewa.bsky.social) @CMarrewa]

As these privileged men, Mehmood Farooqui and Tarun Tejpal attempt to paint themselves as the victim heroes of an unjust system, I think it's appropriate for me to put my interview with Urvashi Butalia here. I also realize that the time has come to say more.

[Prathyush Parasuraman @kaagazkafool]

@PhilipPanass At least the film included the two wives + meeting with Golwalkar. Fresh biographical details.

[Prathyush Parasuraman @kaagazkafool]

GDN ends with a monologue blaming the “invaders” for dividing us on the lines of caste, language, and religion. We need to go back to our golden age of astronomy and mathematics. We need to rewrite our textbooks. We need to Make Science Great Again.

https://t.co/gJH8CHQJpj

[The Hollywood Reporter India @THRIndia_]

"The show has a dry texture as it moves from evidence to evidence, building a case. You want to slip into the world even as it is kept at an arm’s length with its showy camerawork and literal dialogue."

Read @kaagazkafool's review of #VadhandhiSeason2.
https://t.co/KyWnbBzXze

[Prathyush Parasuraman @kaagazkafool]

A politics of parody from an unserious generation.

Counter culture column for @frontline_india

https://t.co/Yl0Yz2Sl5c