Raviteja Rambarki is pursuing PhD in Sociology at the University of Hyderabad. He likes to write on the interface between cinema and society.

Understanding Gender Politics by Dissecting Vakeel Saab’s Maguva Maguva song
Any modest attempt to understand women’s lives in general should not be starting with this type of portrayal of women.

C/o Kancharapalem: Another film in Telugu cinema’s rebirth
There are two significant problems one can see in the contemporary Telugu cinema. One, the spatiality of our movies are either city-centric or rural or a mix of both. Second, notwithstanding the spatiality, the stories are majorly elitist, which invokes false aspirations or a sense of escapism with regard to the audience. In other words,…