Conversation Namrata Joshi

Namrata Joshi is associate editor - cinema and a film critic with The Hindu. A member of FIPRESCI, the international federation of film critics based in Munich, she has been a member of its critics' jury at multiple film festivals across the world. She has also been on the selection committee for films at the International Film Festival of India, Goa, in 2008 and 2012. A Charles Wallace India Trust fellow and a Chevening scholar, she won India's National Award for Best Film Critic in 2004. Namrata has contributed pieces to various anthologies on Indian cinema, and currently resides and works in Mumbai.