Articles by Prahlad Srihari
HT reviewer Prahlad Srihari picks his favourite reads of 2023
A search for a lost horror film leads the protagonists into a world of Nazi occultism in a novel that explores the legacy of colonialism in Mexico
Updated on Dec 22, 2023 06:54 PM IST
Books to Screen: Poe, Mike Flanagan and homes haunted by what’s within
The Fall of the House of Usher may borrow its title from Poe’s 1839 short story, but the story itself is a springboard for a complex intertextual palimpsest
Published on Dec 12, 2023 09:00 PM IST
Wes Anderson and Roald Dahl: A match made in picture-book heaven
From The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar to The Swan, The Rat Catcher and Poison, a look at how Anderson handles four of Dahl’s stories on Netflix
Published on Dec 05, 2023 09:36 PM IST
John le Carre and the art of deception
In The Pigeon Tunnel, the Apple TV+ film, Errol Morris sits down with novelist John le Carre to sharpen the blur of fact and fiction, truth and memory
Published on Dec 01, 2023 06:46 PM IST
Page to screen: Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Scorsese’s vision transforms David Grann’s book into a robust dialogue about stories and who gets to tell them
Updated on Nov 24, 2023 07:32 AM IST
As quick with a quip as with a Glock
On Justified, the art of dialogue, and why Elmore Leonard’s work is such a natural fit for the screen
Published on Nov 03, 2023 05:51 PM IST
Page to screen: Under the Skin
As Under the Skin turns 10, a look at what made Jonathan Glazer’s cinematic meditation on alienation a touchstone of book-to-film reinterpretations
Published on Oct 26, 2023 05:46 PM IST
Movies as endless commercials
Films are no longer just a catalyst to sell pre-existing product lines. Instead, as Barbie, Air and Flamin’ Hot show, they have become obsessed with mythifying the product itself
Published on Oct 14, 2023 11:39 AM IST
Essay: The catastrophe that destroyed all meaning
Neither the dropping of the bombs nor the aftermath is shown in Oppenheimer. But it is Japanese art and media that provide an audit of the bomb's devastation
Updated on Aug 17, 2023 06:01 PM IST
Book to film: On Oppenheimer and American Prometheus
A look at how Christopher Nolan’s film builds on Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin’s scholarly biography of the famed physicist
Updated on Aug 09, 2023 09:01 PM IST
Mash-up madness: Welcome to Barbenheimer
The same-day release of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was expected to cause a cultural fission. Instead, we got fusion
Updated on Jul 27, 2023 07:00 PM IST
Essay: An unnatural hunger
From Bones and All to American Psycho and Silence of the Lambs, a look at cannibalism in popular culture
Updated on Jul 20, 2023 07:05 PM IST
The new Perry Mason – more Raymond Chandler than Raymond Burr
HBO’s Perry Mason employs the 1930s setting as a lens to investigate the perennial anxieties surrounding race, class, sexuality and immigration in America
Updated on Jun 30, 2023 03:32 PM IST
Essay: On the caustic humour of Succession
For its entire run, an abiding pleasure of tuning into the HBO show was to watch a superb ensemble mercilessly lob verbal grenades in their jockeying for power
Updated on Jun 08, 2023 08:58 PM IST
Fleishman Is in Trouble: A Divorce Story
Based on Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s debut novel, the Disney+Hotstar series makes viewers think about how women are transformed in male-centric narratives even as it takes them on a non-linear tour of a marriage from beginning to end
Updated on Mar 29, 2023 05:16 PM IST
Without Its Hot Star HBO, A Disney+ Sub Is Slim Pickings
If losing the rights to IPL cost Disney+ Hotstar close to 4 million subscribers, losing HBO's roster may prove to be a considerable setback. By Prahlad Srihari.
Updated on Mar 28, 2023 11:08 PM IST
Essay: On the continuing fascination with Marilyn Monroe
From Joyce Carol Oates to Norman Mailer and Andrew Dominik, most writers and filmmakers find it impossible to celebrate Monroe for the artist she was and view her life only as tragedy
Updated on Mar 15, 2023 06:50 PM IST
Prahlad Srihari
Essay: On remixing history
From Apple TV’s Dickinson to Netflix’s Persuasion and Hulu’s The Great, period accuracy is out and creative anachronisms are in. While this might upset the purist, it is an interesting approach that injects freshness into classic material
Updated on Jan 25, 2023 08:04 PM IST
Prahlad Srihari
Essay: On filming the “unfilmable” novel
Decoding the recent trend of cinema and TV tackling what were previously deemed as texts that just couldn’t be make that leap to a visual medium because of the original’s scope, scale and style
Updated on Jan 19, 2023 10:30 PM IST
Prahlad Srihari
Review: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood; A Novel by Quentin Tarantino
The storytelling in Tarantino’s debut novel is non-linear, the writing is punchy, and it comes as no surprise that it reads like a motion picture
Updated on Jul 22, 2021 02:00 PM IST
Prahlad Srihari
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