Not many know or remember this but Shaktian Space (such a silly name) was started in 2007 for two main purposes: posting utterly bad poems and brutally honest movie reviews. Over the years, as my writing evolved, I pressed the brake on (forgettable) poetry and geared up on journalistic writing, with a significant dose of existentialism. However, my obsession with cinema festered. I continued to post my thoughts on movie scenes, the deeper meanings of a given dialogue, philosophies behind character’s unsaid dilemma, and so on. I used to be so clued in that until the pandemic, not a week went by I didn’t tweet a movie recco. In fact, there was a reader base for the same. If I didn’t share a recco, my DMs used to get anxious.
The undercurrent was majestic. A splendid read.