Ashish Rajadhyaksha

Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Born	Ashish Vithal Rajadhyaksha (1957-03-12) 12 March 1957 (age 68) Bombay, India
Occupations	Film scholar, cultural theorist
Years active	1982–present
Spouse	Pushpamala N. (divorced)
Website	ashishrajadhyaksha.academia.edu

Ashish Vithal Rajadhyaksha (born 12 March 1957) is an Indian film scholar, art curator and cultural theorist. He was a Senior Fellow at the Bangalore-based Centre for the Study of Culture and Society. ^[1]

Early life

Ashish Vithal Rajadhyaksha ^[2] was born on 12 March 1957 in Bombay (later renamed Mumbai), India. ^[1] His father was a soldier in the Indian army. Rajadhyaksha's serious interest in cinema developed in the late 1970s. ^[3] In 1978, he graduated from the University of Bombay with a Bachelor of Science degree. ^[1]

Career

Rajadhyaksha developed a keenness for Ritwik Ghatak's films after attending a course organised by the Film and Television Institute and the National Film Archive of India in the early 1980s. The first book that he authored was Ritwik Ghatak: A Return to the Epic, published in 1982. ^[3] Starting in 1983, he wrote numerous articles for publications such as the New Delhi–based Journal of Arts & Ideas and Calcutta (now Kolkata)–based Journal of the Moving Image. ^[1] He authored, with Paul Willemen, Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema in 1994. ^{[4] [5]} After a long hiatus, Rajadhyaksha's next book, a solo, was Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid: From Bollywood to the Emergency in 2009, ^{[1] [6]} followed by The Last Cultural Mile: An Inquiry into Technology and Governance in India in 2011, ^[3] and Indian Cinema: A Very Short Introduction in 2016. ^[7]

Personal life

Rajadhyaksha was married to Pushpamala N., a Bangalore-based artist. ^[8] The couple later divorced. ^[9]

Books written

• Rajadhyaksha, Ashish (1982). Ritwik Ghatak: A Return to the Epic. Screen Unit. OCLC   10516837.
• Rajadhyaksha, Ashish; Willemen, Paul (1998) [1994]. Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema. Oxford University Press. ISBN   0-19-563579-5.
• Rajadhyaksha, Ashish (2009). Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid: From Bollywood to the Emergency. Indiana University Press. ISBN   978-0-253-22048-6.
• Rajadhyaksha, Ashish (2011). The Last Cultural Mile: An Inquiry into Technology and Governance in India. Centre for Internet and Society. OCLC   925374086.
• Rajadhyaksha, Ashish (2016). Indian Cinema: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-872309-7.

References

1. "Ashish Rajadhyaksha". Centre for the Study of Culture and Society. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
2. "评论档案 艺术档案". Artda.cn (in Chinese). 20 October 2014. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
3. Akhtar, Aasim (17 June 2018). "Ghatak continues to fascinate me even today". The News International . Archived from the original on 30 June 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
4. "What experts say about Bengaluru's possibility as a "creative city"". Citizen Matters. 28 September 2011. Archived from the original on 30 June 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
5. Nath, Parshathy J. (6 June 2015). "Celluloid history". The Hindu . Archived from the original on 30 June 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
6. Guy, Randor (14 October 2009). "Encyclopaedic study of Indian cinema". The Hindu . Archived from the original on 30 June 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
7. Luhrssen, David (23 November 2016). "Indian Cinema: A Very Short Introduction". Shepherd Express . Archived from the original on 30 June 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
8. Tripathi, Shailaja (16 March 2018). "Pushpamala speaks art in many languages". The Hindu . Archived from the original on 30 June 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
9. N, Pushpamala (5 September 2019). "Elegy for a lost friend: Gauri Lankesh (1962–2017)". Indian Cultural Forum. Archived from the original on 30 June 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.