Gaurav Krishnan

Writer

Contributing since October, 2021

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Author Details

Gaurav is a seasoned writer & journalist from Mumbai, India who has extensively covered football (soccer), music, and film over the course of his career despite being an Engineer(B.E) by qualification, after graduating from MIT, Manipal(IN). He's an avid cinema buff, who shares a deep understanding & passion for film & loves dissecting & analyzing films from cinematography, directing, score, screenplay & editing.

Exploring art & creative pursuits are a way of life for Gaurav, and when he's not writing, he's binge watching movies or following his favorite football team Chelsea FC. In his free time, he explores musical avenues as a musician, producer, DJ, and composer having started composing for film in mid 2020. The interplay of a film's visuals and the score is an area Gaurav loves analyzing and creating new approaches to given his composing pursuits.

You can find his musical portfolio on ghostintent.art and his writing portfolio on gauravkrishnan.space

On his Medium page he blogs about his diverse range of interests medium.com/@gaurav_krishnan

And you can also find his interview as an upcoming composer from India looking to work with overseas filmmakers here: compozly.com/blog/film-composer-showcase-gaurav-krishnan/

Industry Focus

Gaurav is a Republish Writer at Movieweb having previously worked as an Evergreen Writer and has been contributing to the platform since February 2023.

Favorite Media

Gaurav enjoys a wide range of films from various genres, but Martin Scorsese, Brian de Palma and Francis Ford Coppola are a few of his favorite directors and he's watched nearly all of their films within the crime/drama genre and swears by his favorite show Boardwalk Empire(also a Scorsese production).

Gaurav consumes a lot of historic/historical fiction and contemporary war films which is another staple genre in his watching list from Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan to Black Hawk Down, The Hurt Locker and newer films like 1917 and shows like Band Of Brothers - the war genre is one of his go-to genres to watch.

Gaurav shares a soft spot for the The Lord Of The Rings trilogy which released when he was a teenager, apart from Star Wars that only debuted in theatres in India in the 2000s and the Mission Impossible franchise which are his favorite movie franchises.

Every now and then, Gaurav likes to take a time capsule back in time to travel back to Old Hollywood to watch and study some of Classic Hollywood's greatest films from Hitchcock to Bergman, Tarkovski, Kubrick, Godard and others. He even named his electric guitar Audrey after the enigmatic Audrey Hepburn and has sampled quotes by Humphrey Bogart and Hepburn in his beattape releases as a music producer.

Christopher Nolan is perhaps Gaurav's favorite current director while he also rates Quentin Tarantino very highly. Nolan's films Inception, Tenet, Interstellar, Dunkirk and the director's Batman trilogy remain influential films he has watched.

His favorite composers include Hans Zimmer, Ennio Morricone, Ramin Djawadi, AR Rahman, Michael Giacchino and Radiohead guitarist/composer Jonny Greenwood.

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