Dalton
- Film critic
- Music journalist
- Editor — Cinematic Illusions
- Editor — Journal of Indian Cinema
- Co-author — book on cinema
- Founder — Cinema Society of India
- Founder — House of Illusions
- Advisory board member — Kautik International Film Festival
- Advisory board member — Guwahati Asian Film Festival
- Advisory board member — Indian Film Festival of Cincinnati, USA
- Former artistic director — Chalachitram National Film Festival
- Festival director — Mumbai International Student Film Festival
- Served on jury of MG University & National Film Awards
Photo courtesy: CNN-IBN, NFDC (formerly, Films Division), IFFK, GIFF, RVU, Chalachitram, Yogi /Kautik, Manohar Iyer, Sanjay Ram, Madhu, Manoj, Anirban Lahiri, KB John, & unknown.
Plans for the FUTURE
People — Create a global company that scouts for obscure, underprivileged talents.
Education — Create a radically-new educational system.
Psychiatry — Retire from the arts. Study medicine. Correct all the glaring errors in the textbooks of psychology.
Cinema Society of India
Founder | film screening society founded in 2011
Previously: monthly screenings at Eka Art Gallery, and Tagore Library, in Kochi
Presently: weekly screenings in association with Minimal Cinema, in Kozhikode
House of Illusions
Music Journalism
Music Reviewer /Journalist /Editor
Wrote for The Hindu, The Free Press Journal, Update, Deccan Chronicle, and the Times Group Publications.
Edited Raga to Rock and Maverick
Film Criticism
Film critic — of Hollywood films for Rediff, Dear Cinema, The Sentinel, and The Film Street Journal
Film critic — of Malayalam films for Upperstall and Deccan Chronicle /The Asian Age
Author — of one of 33 chapters, book on Indian cinema published by the Federation of Film Societies of India (FFSI)
Editor — of Cinematic Illusions, and Journal of Indian Cinema
Photography
Video recordings done for Shemaroo, Raga to Rock, Bollywood Hungama, and others
Recorded a variety of performers ranging from Pt. Jasraj, Durga Jasraj, and Trilok Gurtu to Remember Shakti, José Feliciano, The Blues Brothers, America, Shaggy, Enrique Iglesias, Jethro Tull, Walter Trout, Buddy Guy, Uriah Heap, and Dire Straits
In the news
Interviewed in Indian Express, DNA, Hindustan Times, and The Asian Age
Interviewed on Times Now and CNN-IBN
Interviewed on Radio Red FM
Quoted or referenced in most all major newspapers in India
Declined byte for Manorama News channel | on infamous ‘Kiss of Love’ movement
Declined byte for Fox 5 channel, USA | on controversial remake song ‘Pasoori’
