Ashish Vithal Rajadhyaksha (born 12 March 1957) is an Indian film scholar, art curator and cultural theorist.
He was a Senior Fellow at the Bangalore-based Centre for the Study of Culture and Society.
[1] Ashish Vithal Rajadhyaksha[2] was born on 12 March 1957 in Bombay (later renamed Mumbai), India.
The first book that he authored was Ritwik Ghatak: A Return to the Epic, published in 1982.
[4][5] After a long hiatus, Rajadhyaksha's next book, a solo, was Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid: From Bollywood to the Emergency in 2009,[1][6] followed by The Last Cultural Mile: An Inquiry into Technology and Governance in India in 2011,[3] and Indian Cinema: A Very Short Introduction in 2016.