I am a film and media scholar based in New York. My book Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City (Sept 2020), does a deep dive into histories of filmmaking in late colonial India. This book is partly inspired by my own work experience in Mumbai’s film and TV industries in the mid-2000s.

I teach at Columbia University as an associate professor in the department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS). I also edit the peer-reviewed journal BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, and curate film exhibitions. Currently, I am at work on several research projects, including a second book that is tentatively titled “Tropical Machines: Extractive Media and Plantation Modernity” You can read more about my work here.

[Image credit: Hemant Chaturvedi. Torn film poster, Ganga Theatre, Bikaner, Rajasthan.]