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Shifted Lens: Reframing PK and E.T. Through Fresh Eyes

I believe it was in some interview, where Director Govind Nihalani was discussing his film Ardh Satya (1983). The film was revered by masses and critics alike as India's first corrupt cop movie. That would mean an entire nation...
storytattva September 28, 2025
Room Notes

When Art Chooses You: Why Perfect Is the Enemy of Finished

It's 3:30 AM. In a couple of hours, I'm supposed to wake up and go to work. But here I am. Just wrapped a few scenes for a feature film and decided to stop for the night. I had cracked the screenplay till interval already, but...
storytattva September 19, 2025September 19, 2025
Storytelling

How Chennai Express Found Characters, While Param Sundari Settled for Stereotypes

Bollywood loves its North-meets-South romances. We've seen them in Ek Duuje Ke Liye (1981), Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke (1993), and 2 States (2014), where cultural clashes act as shorthand for conflict. But let's set those aside. For...
storytattva September 14, 2025September 28, 2025
Storytelling

Param Sundari (2025): Why Bollywood’s Love Stories Keep Falling Flat

Param Sundari (2025), starring Sidharth Malhotra and Janhvi Kapoor in lead roles, is positioned as a romantic comedy. Param, a wayward second-generation entrepreneur, loves investing his father's wealth in new startup ideas—one...
storytattva September 14, 2025September 14, 2025
Shop Talk

Have You Watched This? Or Do You Like That?

At the agency I work for, I once asked an influencer on my team to direct a spoken poetry video. It was a conceptual narrative with every chance of collapsing under a first-time storyteller. She panicked. She yelled that she had...
storytattva September 13, 2025
Musings

The Eklavya Principle and the Coaching Charade

The morning began with a note on my desk: Happy Teacher's Day. Beside it, a bar of chocolate. Instinctively, I smirked—and if I'm being honest, I was pleased. A moment later, the familiar parasite of impostor syndrome climbed...
storytattva September 13, 2025
Storytelling

Why Do Your Characters Feel Like They’re Trapped in an Echo Chamber?

There was a time I'd instinctively look away when an ad came on. Who wants to be sold something in the middle of a story? Now it's the reverse. I lean in, sometimes even replay ads just to admire their storytelling. Meanwhile,...
storytattva September 7, 2025
Musings

The Burden of Winning the Blame Game

It was past 11 PM, raining hard. I was on my way back from work after already spending three hours driving. In another ten minutes, I should have been home. Instead, my car broke down in the middle of the road where trucks...
storytattva August 31, 2025August 31, 2025
Musings

When the Fight is done, will you be standing Tall?

During the Siege of Sardis (546 BCE), Croesus of Lydia was defeated by Cyrus of Persia. Croesus, who had been ruling for about 14 years until then, had fallen and was captured. He was about to be executed on a pyre when he...
storytattva August 25, 2025August 25, 2025
Musings

How I stopped fighting ghosts

So, growing up, I somehow turned into this angry, frustrated individual who had a lot to complain about regarding the rest of the world. Looking back, most of it stemmed from an inflated self-image, or perhaps a "holier than...
storytattva August 22, 2025August 25, 2025

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