ABOUT ME

My name is Maariyah, I’m a British-Pakistani from London currently working as a Marketing Manager.

I have a BA in Liberal Arts with a Film major and English minor, but I’m currently pursuing a part-time Master’s course in South Asian Studies. My academic writing is usually concerned with these subject areas, particularly Bollywood.

I’ve put this page together to share my personal and academic work from the last few years so have a read and let me know if anything interests you.

Thank you!

Marketing Manager and MA Student

I’ve written papers on contemporary global novels, South Asian leftist literature, East Asian popular cinema, contemporary European films, anti-capitalist and anti-colonial doctrine, film and religion, Bollywood cinema, classical and biblical contexts in literature and even Beyoncé.

I’ve also produced literary reviews, close analyses, video essays, blog posts, podcasts and group presentations throughout my university career.

My undergraduate dissertation was on: Exploring how the globalization of Bollywood shaped the politics of Karan Johar films.

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Favourite Non-Bollywood Films

1. East is East (dir. Damien O’Donnell, 1999)

2. Mustang (dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven, 2015)

3. Some Like It Hot (dir. Billy Wilder, 1959)

4. Parasite (dir. Bong Joon-Ho, 2019)

5. West Side Story (dir. Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise, 1961)

Favourite Bollywood Films

1. Omkara (dir. Vishal Bhardwaj, 2006)

2. Kal Ho Naa Ho (dir. Nikhil Advani, 2003)

3. Pyaasa (dir. Guru Dutt, 1957)

4. Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani (dir. Karan Johar, 2023)

5. Mr India (dir. Shekhar Kapur, 1987)

‘When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom, remember such warnings - let literature teach us that there are no certainties, that the process is open, and that it may be altogether salutary that it is so.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak • Scholar, literary theorist and feminist critic

ABOUT ME

My name is Maariyah, I’m a British-Pakistani from London currently working as a Marketing Manager.

I have a BA in Liberal Arts with a Film major and English minor, but I’m currently pursuing a part-time Master’s course in South Asian Studies. My academic writing is usually concerned with these subject areas, particularly Bollywood.

I’ve put this page together to share my personal and academic work from the last few years so have a read and let me know if anything interests you.

Thank you!

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‘When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom, remember such warnings - let literature teach us that there are no certainties, that the process is open, and that it may be altogether salutary that it is so.

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