Rida Bilgrami

Writer | Film Critic for @smthcurated | Tutor @Cisl_cambridge

[Rida Bilgrami @ridahb]

Thrilled to share my first piece for @Eater on how immigrant women chefs from South Asia are embracing the intimate supper club format to broaden the narrative around under-documented regional food cultures. Photography by @MingTangEvans
https://t.co/8zI8P13M3u

[Rida Bilgrami @ridahb]

@LTA who can I contact if I am having continuous challenges in booking courts in London this week?

[Rida Bilgrami @ridahb]

Selling 1 ticket for Jay Kelly at £15. Sunday 19 October, 15:00 at Vue West End. Screen 7/C 21. Please DM me if interested.
@LFFstubs #LFF2025

[Rida Bilgrami @ridahb]

I’m selling 1 ticket for the No Other Choice screening on Thursday 16 October 2025 14:30, RFH. Balcony/G 30. £16 face value. Please DM me if interested. I can share an e-ticket.
@LFFstubs #LFF

[Rida Bilgrami @ridahb]

@LFFstubs
Selling 1x Mastermind ticket for TODAY's screening at 14:45 at £15. DM me if interested.

[Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg]

Small thing, but appreciate when distributors value critics enough to include their names alongside the outlets they write for — it’s only getting harder to have a career in criticism, and quoting an outlet but not a critic anonymizes and diminishes their voice while elevating it

[Ayesha A. Siddiqi @AyeshaASiddiqi]

There are so many people who are genuinely committed to a political ideal that insists on the safety and dignity of us all and the planet we share. You can see it in how they treat the people around them, they’re saving the world every day.

[Aaron Bady @zunguzungu]

A propos of nothing, a major throughline in the work of political theorist Mahmood Mamdani is that the modern imperial state is distinct from earlier empires in its desire not to eradicate difference, but to shape and define it, and then govern through those hierarchies.

[Rida Bilgrami @ridahb]

Greatly enjoyed this conversation with @Arifa_Akbar on the psychic and intellectual terrain of her new book Wolf Moon and her relationship with fear, darkness and cities.
https://t.co/1SEJPix5lq

[A S Hamrah @hamrahrama]

For @nplusonemag, on 17 Oscar-nominated movies and David Lynch — https://t.co/gOPl2ulDcL

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

One can love and cherish a homeland and/or language *without* believing that your culture/language is better than others. Love isn’t supremacist. The romance of ethnonationalism is for bot-hearts, not humans. No human is purely anything. We are all fictions and layers of fable.

[Guy Lodge @GuyLodge]

We can’t let yet another London cultural landmark become yet another slab of corporate filler. We’re losing this city. Sign here.

[Prathyush Parasuraman @pruhthyush]

As tribute, I offer a pathway into Shyam Benegal’s filmography, one that was never cynical even when it was critical.

https://t.co/bblcmYmZUI

[Rida Bilgrami @ridahb]

A set of mini essays for @smthcurated on films across decades that are a cultural and political inquiry into the intimate lives of women in various parts of Asia.

https://t.co/eyhYDnZUX7

[Rida Bilgrami @ridahb]

@bressonian @BarbicanCentre It was a delight to watch this tonight. Thank you for curating an excellent selection!

[Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks]

“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis

[Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf]

Excited to collaborate with the @project_polis on their culture vertical! For my first essay, I wrote about the pioneering work and enduring influence of the Yugantar Film Collective anchored around the new documentary No City for Women

https://t.co/f3HDQhk2nw

[Rida Bilgrami @ridahb]

All We Imagine as Light has the rare ability to excel at both a subconscious level as well as a narrative one.
I wrote a longish form essay on its rendering of beauty and its gift of a new imagining of kinship, of time, of dreams, of love for @smthcurated
https://t.co/9hEhDDOfrn

[Lee @leeartr]

The history of cinema is a history of waves.

An elegy for the late Godard in the form of a fragmented short essay; with Gass, Rancière, Daney, and Twombly.

[Rida Bilgrami @ridahb]

Wrote about the stunning 'Girls Will Be Girls' ahead of its UK release for @smthcurated. The film is a brilliant roadmap for storytelling on South Asian girlhood and sexual autonomy that doesn't essentialise identity.
https://t.co/cmsGKBKB7h…
@ReclaimTheFrame

[Vittles @vittlesmagazine]

Today's essay by @neemayharaf is a cultural history of the dastarkhwan: the food that is eaten on it, its link to Urdu poetry, and its role in facilitating commensality among South Asian Muslims.

https://t.co/4YXLyFkzhv