It's finally that time of the year. When I look for cheeky excuses so that I can take a few days off from work to experience cinema the way it should be. Without kids, without anti-smoking disclaimers, and without censorship. It is when I put everything else on low priority and make love with cinema.
This is a long-form take on Young Critics Lab, the annual workshop on film criticism for youngsters organized by MAMI which is the organization behind the Mumbai Film Festival. I attended all the three rounds of the lab in 2017 between August and October, which typically ends with the finalists attending the week-long festival in various venues across Mumbai and selecting a film for the Young Critics Choice Award.
This is the professional bio data of Tejas Nair. It lists my achievements, work history, and educational qualifications.
Entertainment // Films
A list of more than 700 film reviews written over a span of 4 years. Mostly Malayalam, Hindi, and English-language films.
This video countdown of the top 15 Hindi films of 2015 was created for the Bollywood film review aggregator platform, The Review Monk. Rankings are based on the site's aggregate scores.
I wrote this piece after sitting through an interview during the 2015 edition of MAMI Mumbai Film Festival where Anuvab Pal moderated a discussion on the topic of gender bias in Bollywood. Among the talkers were Kangana Ranaut, Shabana Azmi, Kiran Rao, Ava DuVernay, and Vidya Balan.
I wrote this piece after watching the Golden Palm winner Dheepan at the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival in October 2015.
My take on legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray's classic, The Apu Trilogy. I watched the final two films for the third time at the 2015 edition of MAMI Mumbai Film Festival in October.
I wrote around 500 film synopses and storylines for this online Bollywood film archive, now titled Flikbase. Agency: Blink Digital.