About Vivaan Shah

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Vivaan Shah is an actor, director, writer, musician, singer, and painter. He has tried his hands at various art forms though acting is the one through which he earns his bread and butter. He studied in The Doon School, St.Stephen's College and Jai Hind College. He has been active in the theatre scene since he was a child. Theatre is unquestionably the most important medium in his life. Currently he is trying to make it as a fiction writer of genre and hardboiled novels. This is the first time he has ever written about a film.

The following is a chronological compilation of articles written by Vivaan Shah for A Potpourri of Vestiges. Readers can click on the desired title in order to access the particular article. 

1. Raoul Walsh's 'White Heat': Cosmic Battleground

2. Outcast of the Islands: Poetic Orientalism

3. Akira Kurosawa's 'High and Low' (1963): A Kabuki Dance of Death

4. Ken Russell’s 'The Music Lovers' (1970): The purest expression of Opera ever committed to celluloid

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