Maithili Rao

Maithili Rao is an award winning film critic and book author, who has written for Man’s World, The Hindu, Indian Express, Frontline, Cinema In India, Film Comment, International Film Guide, and the British Film Institute. She is also a member of the editorial board of the South Asian Cinema Foundation.

Author

• Smita Patil: A Brief Incandescence
• The Millennial Woman in Bollywood: A New 'Brand'

Co-author

• Chapter “Rebels without a cause” for the Encyclopædia Britannica India volume on Hindi cinema
• Chapter "Heart of the Hindi Film” for Bollywood, Dakini publications, London
• Chapter “To be a Woman” for Frames of Mind, Indian Council for Cultural Relations
• Chapter “Images of Women” for Rasa, vol ii, edited by Chidananda Das Gupta
• Chapter “The Man who spoke in pictures”, on Bimal Roy, published by Penguin
• Chapter "Amitabh Bachchan" for Icons, published by Roli Books

Awards

• FIPRESCI-India Satyajit Ray Memorial Award (2024) for outstanding contribution to writing on cinema
• Bimal Roy Memorial Award (2023) for contribution to cinema

Jury

• The Golden Elephant
• Mumbai International Film Festival
• Hyderabad International Short Film Festival (HISFF)
• Bombay Documentary Film Festival
• FIPRESCI-India jury at the Sochi International Film Festival

External links

• Member — Film Critics Circle of India
• Maithili Rao at HISFF
• Maithili Rao at Asia Pacific Screen Awards