Jawan is an outright political film months ahead of the general elections wrapped as a masala entertainer. The social justice component is heavy which is deeply satisfying, as if one is reading a social theory text with a background surround sound of a thriller.

A movie in an Indian theatre after 4.5 years that too masala Bollywood is an experience although in an expat mall in Mumbai. Still had whistles flying away to glory.

A brave choice after Pathan. Good one, a Nayak redux for the reels generation.

Bombay, the city of my birth is a phenomenal site of intellectual production by anthropologists and historians alike as there is so much nuance to unravel and connected histories with the Indian Ocean World. This literature review on a shadow archive popular with scholars of the global south yielded 25 odd titles in an hour.

Mumbai, does deserve a deep reading list and a graduate school course to itself.