J. Shruti

Writer, Editor. Prev - Senior Features Editor @cosmoindia. Senior Editor @Filmcompanion, Associate Editor @Vervemagazine.

[J. Shruti @shru6891]

For Frontline, I wrote about why there are so many films with supernatural elements, the missing whimsy in some of them, and how their overproduction bludgeons their edge.

[Frontline @frontline_india]

NEW | Can Indian fantasy films outgrow their formulas?

J. Shruti writes.

https://t.co/7KB72dSg9b

[Frontline @frontline_india]

#Cinema | Bollywood’s “strong women” are all edge and no depth—created for optics, not agency. They fight, flirt, and philosophise—but never threaten the frame.

@shru6891 writes.

https://t.co/IsO2rMcJ73

[J. Shruti @shru6891]

@ProjectSeestra Loved, loved the pieces. Can’t wait to read more from you in the coming year.

[caro ⭐️ @stylesgala]

someone please let me log this on letterboxd

[J. Shruti @shru6891]

Wrote about Deepika Padukone’s arc, the endearing self-destructive woman she keeps resurrecting, the missing idiosyncrasy in her recent films.

[Frontline @frontline_india]

PROFILE | Even if #DeepikaPadukone's recent roles do not carry the multitudes of her previous characters, they ensure longevity in an industry that has brazen double standards when it comes to the shelf life of female stars.

@shru6891 writes.

https://t.co/Z1xSZVq748

[Gayle Sequeira @gayle_sequeira]

Going to be shouty for a second because I HAVE AN ARTICLE OUT IN @vulture (!!!!!), A SITE I HAVE READ AND LOVED EVERY SINGLE DAY SINCE I BECAME A FILM JOURNALIST AAAAAA
https://t.co/dlGDo4pxsX

[Jinoy Jose P. (ജിനോയ്‌ ജോസ്‌ പി.) @jinoyjosep]

Is Deepika Padukone losing her edge? Her recent roles in big-budget films have brought enormous commercial success, but the nuanced characters that made her a star are missing, writes @shru6891 @frontline_india https://t.co/qXer00fHzb

[Prathyush Parasuraman @pruhthyush]

.@FilmCompanion , where the kindest, strangest minds met, created frameworks of love—for cinema, for the cinematic, for life, itself—and, ten years later, now part.

For all your love/hate, I am most grateful for you never being indifferent to us.

[Gayle Sequeira @gayle_sequeira]

.@shreemiverma reminded me that I once wrote about a film called Politics Of Love (lol), in which Mallika Sherawat plays Kamala Harris, who talks about "samosas stuffed with black-eyed peas", pronounces 'Gupta' as 'Goopta' and falls for a Republican
https://t.co/wfxBYTAFtN

[J. Shruti @shru6891]

@amzbot3 Please say more.

[J. Shruti @shru6891]

Something chafes about the excessive focus on pragmatism in our Bollywood romances of this year. Some thoughts :https://t.co/3jSeOJOzrY

[J. Shruti @shru6891]

@priyankaaidasa1 @FilmCompanion @ProjectSeestra Hello Priyanka. You can send me your pitch.

[J. Shruti @shru6891]

Wrote about the singularity of the towel dance, its softness, its tenderness. Ranbir Kapoor's chiseled body in the song, Bhansali's ability to make the actors acquiesce to his vision. A gorgeous portrait of a man's upper body, and his yearning.

[Film Companion Studios @FilmCompanion]

#RanbirKapoor's towel dance in 'Saawariya' is a singular display of soft masculinity in Hindi Cinema.

Read more here: https://t.co/SXB6zdsCzh

[Film Companion Studios @FilmCompanion]

#RanbirKapoor's towel dance in 'Saawariya' is a singular display of soft masculinity in Hindi Cinema.

Read more here: https://t.co/SXB6zdsCzh

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

Revisiting one of my favorite passages from an interview with Toni Morrison:

[n+1 @nplusonemag]

Who was Barbie? @hamrahrama, @AriBrostoff, Christine Smallwood, @ceciliakcecilia, Jon Dieringer (@ScreenSlate), Jasmine Sanders, Arielle Isack (@distraughtemoji), @lisa_borst, and @markkrotov weigh in.
https://t.co/l2hijXzGrO

[Prathyush Parasuraman @pruhthyush]

Karan Johar’s cinema is (unfairly, for the most part) considered conservative, regressive even.

Here, I complicate this idea a little, looking at the progressive means he deploys for these conservative ends — the modernist against modernism.

https://t.co/cSZvOFXgkX

[Agnes Callard @AgnesCallard]

Since I just wrote something that a bunch of people are reading I thought it might be a good time to do a 🧵explaining my approach to public writing.

TL; DR: it's Socratic.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

“Travel gets branded as an achievement: see interesting places, have interesting experiences, become interesting people. Is that what it really is?” @AgnesCallard writes, in a new essay. https://t.co/Nwlwv5AYG9

[Prathyush Parasuraman @pruhthyush]

For Mrinal Sen’s birth centenary, I rummaged through his cinema, his interviews, his manifesto. The ambivalent rage in his films. His ‘Private Marxism’, whatever that means. The aesthetic ruptures in his artistry.

Went long, for @FilmCompanion

https://t.co/YhFZ3UD5sa