Rahul Desai

Rahul Desai is a writer, director and film critic who works for The Hindu as a columnist. Rahul began his career as a writer, he has written many short stories and even some plays for some famous theatres. Rahul was later hired by the prestigious Mumbai Mirror Click to look into! >> Read More... , where he would do his weekly movie reviews of all the new releases. He became a much-celebrated person as his reviews started gaining popularity. Later in a few years, Rahul had to leave Mumbai Mirror due to some controversies, it was regarding the review he wrote for Tanu Weds Manu Click to look into! >> Read More... . Rahul currently writes columns for The Hindu and he has his own blogs and he also posts content on Twitter and Instagram.

In 2011, he made his first mark as a writer for the short film called Aakra-Man, written and starring Rahul himself, the movie was based around a superhero in Mumbai, who goes around solving petty crimes in the city. The movie was directed by Rahul’s brother Mihir Desai Mihir Desai is an Indian Director. He was born on >> Read More... . In 2014, he made his directorial debut with the movie Khoon Ltd. He also produced and wrote the script for the movie. The movie was about two vampires in Mumbai city, traveling the city with two different ideologies about life and how they try to blend in the Indian society. Apart from writing in newspapers and making short films, Rahul also works as a reviewer on the famous movie review site called Rotten Tomatoes, he is one of the few Indian reviewers.