Category: Screening Minds
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Life in a Box: How Homebound Is a Stark Mirror to Systemic Exclusion
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With Muted Healing being a mission to create safety in the world – I get to enjoy the vagueness and generalisability of that statement. I needn’t box myself into one service or product, because safety should be infused into everything right? But what if your entire life was reduced to one box, where that box…
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The Volume We Inherit: Brown Girl Noise and the Psychology of Silencing
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“The most dangerous poison of all, is the one that keeps us quiet” Kaya Uppal / Writer – Brown Girl Noise The Play: Reclaiming the Script Sometimes the universe speaks in clusters. Fresh from analysing Homebound‘s exploration of systemic categorisation, I found myself at Riverside Studio watching Brown Girl Noise—a play that tackles the same…
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Bhaijaan: Wrestling with Dreams & Reality
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As my first theatre review for Screening Minds – (a series exploring psychosocial themes in media) – I should acknowledge my biases upfront. I’m an absolute sucker for authentic portrayals of male friendship – these relationships fascinate me both personally and professionally. Set in Ilford, Bhaijaan follows 15-year-old best friends Khafi and Zain as they…
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Mismatched: A Coming-of-Age Story That Transcends Dating Apps
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After I finished watching Schitt’s Creek, I entered a state of mourning (no for real), and contrary to popular belief, I actually don’t watch a lot of T.V- don’t really have the time to, I struggle to sit still, and maybe it’s a good thing because I get so invested into the characters. So when…
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Yeh Jawaani Hai Dewaani… Phir Se!
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Screening Minds – Millenial Nostalgia with the re-release of YJHD I’m gonna try something different and go for a chatty-patty approach in a blog and then do a TLDR (‘Too Long Didn’t Read’ for my millennials/boomers out there) on the IG post. So yes, a long post incoming, but for the YJHD stans- I think…