JD/PhD student based out of Washington DC & Allahabad. Writer, A for Prayagraj (Aleph Book Company, 2021).
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Megalopolis 2024
Do the lord’s work, and be the first to start laughing at this in your theater…
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Monkey Man 2024
This one was a tough nut to crack. Was I not liking this because of a misplaced sense of propriety over these cultural symbols? Could the movie be a great action pastiche, and I the fool?
After sleeping over it, I have thoroughly come down against Monkey Man. I am all for diaspora filmmakers having fun piecing together their version of “homeland.” What Patel does here is something else though - his infusion of Indian objects, symbols and myths uproots…
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