Kshitij Kushwaha

Kshitij Kushwaha

An avid cinema enthusiast with a flair of traveling, poetry and music sprinkled in between when I am not at the theatre.

Favorite films

  • Dune: Part Two
  • The Dark Knight
  • Past Lives
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

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  • Anora

    ★★★★

  • Queer

    ★★★½

  • Bird

    ★★★★

  • Romeo Is Juliet

    ★★★½

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  • Emilia Pérez

    Emilia Pérez

    A French director walks into a bar and starts explaining the premise that what about a Mexican cartel warlord wants to be a woman and also everyone sings in between every conversation. Minds blown, peak cinema has been achieved!!

  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig

    The Seed of the Sacred Fig

    ★★★★½

    Heart wrenching and uncomfortable as it should be, The Seeds of Sacred Fig shows that oppression starts at home.

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  • All We Imagine as Light

    All We Imagine as Light

    ★★★★★

    All We Imagine as Light is a beautiful ode on womanhood and the sisterhood between the lives of 3 women in the backdrop of the sprawling nature of the city that is Mumbai.

    Payal Kapadia's first feature debut lends such a beautiful and empathetic lens to it's 3 characters of Prabha, Anu and Parvaty as it explores the lives of these women in all its shades, in its longing and yearning, in its loneliness but also in its friendship. And…

  • On Either Sides of the Pond

    On Either Sides of the Pond

    ★★★★½

    Parth Saurabh's debut film Pokhar ke Dunu Paar is a beautiful and heartbreaking ode and a deconstruction of the much-romanticized idea of forbidden love.

    Set in post-lockdown Darbhanga, the movie asks a pertinent question whether love can survive the economic and societal realities and is love just enough for 2 people to stay together. The dilapidated environment of Darbhanga is as if a reflection of the crumbling love life of Sumit and Priyanka, as Sumit who just can't get over…