Cinema is a universal language. It gives to and receives from life. As a matter of cultural experience and self reflection, I like to handle the areas which deal with the human mindscape, and I consider cinema a good medium for enriching the imagination.

Cinema is an art of seeing. A film critic transfers this art to an art of writing. This process involves a number of stages: first, understanding the perspective of the director; second, seeing it in a universal perspective, and, of course, that of the individual critic. Going through these stages is a great challenge, and I like taking challenges.

Writing on cinema needs creativity, also. Creativity is a kind of heightened sensitivity. A creative process happens when a person perceives and relates to incidents and emotions more sensitively than a layman and expresses them in an artistic form.

Amathul Wardha
© FIPRESCI 2008

Amathul Wardha is pursuing a Master's Degree in Communication and Journalism at Kerala University. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Hindi from Mahatma Gandhi University, where she also studied journalism. Her goal is to work in a dynamic field such as cinema.