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Prahlad Srihari

Prahlad Srihari

Articles by Prahlad Srihari

When irony loses its superpower

Self referential comedy when it’s done right: Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr (1924) (Courtesy iMDB)

Updated on Jul 15, 2025 06:50 IST

Of online voyeurs and offline vigilantes

In the grip of true crime (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jun 19, 2025 13:50 IST

Fallout: Post-apocalypse now

Ella Purnell as Lucy, the lawful good vault-dweller who is in for a rude awakening in Fallout. (Courtesy Amazon Prime)

Updated on Jun 3, 2025 12:50 IST

Page to screen: The Nickel Boys

Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson as Elwood and Turner in The Nickel Boys. (Amazon MGM Studios)

Updated on May 13, 2025 08:36 IST

Page to screen: On Queer, desire and disembodiment

“When Burroughs described Lee as a man whose “face was ravaged and vicious and old,” Daniel Craig is not the first person who comes to mind. Sporting wrinkled linen suits, khakis and a fedora, the English actor can make even the sordid tasteful.” (Film still from MUBI)

Updated on May 2, 2025 24:41 IST

A Complete Unknown: When Bob Dylan plugged in

Timothée Chalamet plays a young Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. (Film still)

Updated on Apr 18, 2025 01:17 IST

Aspiring to greatness

Adrian Brody and Felicity Jones in The Brutalist (Film still)

Updated on Apr 10, 2025 09:35 IST

BIFFes 2025: On the Wim Wenders and Krzysztof Kieslowski retrospectives

A scene from Krzysztof Kieslowski’s ‘Three Colours Blue’. (Film still)

Updated on Mar 28, 2025 05:42 IST

Handmaid’s Tales

“Abortion wasn’t decriminalised in France until 1975. To 23-year-old Annie Ernaux, securing one hush-hush in a back-alley was an act of self-preservation. It allowed her to continue her education, pursue her dream and become the Nobel Prize-winning author she is today. The 2000 memoir Happening recounted the whole ordeal. In its 2021 film adaptation, writer-director Audrey Diwan keeps the camera close to Anne.” (Film still)

Updated on Feb 27, 2025 09:18 IST

A wrap-up of Sundance Film Festival 2025

A scene from ‘Sorry, Baby’ (Courtesy of Sundance Institute)

Updated on Feb 10, 2025 12:20 IST

On Anora and invisible labour

A scene from Anora (Prime Video)

Updated on Feb 8, 2025 24:28 IST

Ugly business; About ‘The Substance’

Demi Moore as Elizabeth Sparkle in ‘The Substance’. (MUBI)

Updated on Jan 14, 2025 09:42 IST

2024: A snapshot of the year in cinema

‘All We Imagine as Light’ directed by Payal Kapadia marks a historic milestone for Indian cinema. (Film still)

Updated on Dec 27, 2024 09:42 IST

HT reviewer Prahlad Srihari picks his favourite read of 2024

Of espionage and eco-anarchism: “Expansive though the novel may be, the writing remains nimble. Words hum with possibilities and a deadpan cool.” (Vintage)

Updated on Dec 20, 2024 07:02 IST

Page to screen: The highs and lows of 2024

“Netflix turning Gabriel García Márquez’s ravishing opus One Hundred Years of Solitude into ravishing TV this December bookended a demonstrably fine year for literary adaptations.” (Netflix)

Updated on Dec 18, 2024 12:48 IST

Looking back at MAMI 2024

“When the organisers came together to pick the opening film, the choice must have been a no-brainer. Payal Kapadia’s Cannes-championed ‘All We Imagine as Light’ is a luminous ode to Mumbai and all the migrants who make up the metropolis.” (Film still)

Updated on Nov 29, 2024 15:46 IST

No medicine for melancholy

A scene from The Devil’s Bath (Film still)

Updated on Oct 25, 2024 15:34 IST

Alien: Giger counter

Cailee Spaeny in Alien: Romulus (20th Century Studios)

Updated on Sep 12, 2024 12:21 IST

Book to Screen: Eileen – Of desperation, deviance and deception

Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie in ‘Eileen’. (Film still)

Updated on Aug 21, 2024 15:37 IST

The high-octane power of mythmaking

Dr Dementus and his biker gang in ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’. (Film still)

Updated on Aug 12, 2024 16:01 IST

The economics of killing

“The idea of the professional killer, as proposed by formative texts and preserved by Fincher, is shot full of holes by Hit Man. Such a specimen is a Hollywood invention, Linklater’s film argues while acknowledging their stardom within pop culture.” (Netflix)

Updated on Jul 18, 2024 10:46 IST

Maestro: The dualities of Leonard Bernstein

American conductor, composer, pianist and music educator Leonard Bernstein (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jul 4, 2024 15:14 IST

Shōgun: Lost and found in translation

A scene from Shogun (Courtesy FX)

Updated on Jun 21, 2024 10:09 IST

The Discarnates, All of Us Strangers and the pain of homecoming

The weight of memories (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jun 6, 2024 14:51 IST

Page to Screen: Poor Things – Gray’s anatomy vs Lanthimos’s biopsy

Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things (Courtesy Searchlight Pictures)

Updated on May 17, 2024 11:46 IST

The Zone of Interest: The Holocaust film to end all Holocaust films

A scene from The Zone of Interest (A24)

Updated on May 1, 2024 15:17 IST

Dune: Blind faith is the mind-killer

Sandworms in a scene from Dune: Part Two. (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

Updated on Apr 23, 2024 15:43 IST

Essay: On the spectacle of cancel culture

A scene from Sick of Myself (Film still)

Updated on Apr 9, 2024 15:24 IST

Married to genius

A scene from ‘Priscilla directed’, and produced by Sofia Coppola. The film is based on the 1985 memoir ‘Elvis and Me’ by Priscilla Presley. (Amazon Prime)

Updated on Mar 27, 2024 15:07 IST

Saltburn, Parasite and the class satire industrial complex

“If there is a rallying cry in Saltburn, it isn’t eat the rich, but beware the lower classes.” (Scene from Saltburn)

Updated on Mar 19, 2024 13:13 IST

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