Ashish Rajadhyaksha is a film historian, and an occasional art curator. He is the author of the Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema (with Paul Willemen, 1994/1999), Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid: From Bollywood to the Emergency (2009), John-Ghatak-Tarkovsky: Citizens, Filmmakers, Hackers (2023), and other books. He co-curated the ‘Bombay/Mumbai 1992–2001’ section (with Geeta Kapur) of Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis at the Tate Modern (2002); the ‘You Don’t Belong’ festival of film and video in four cities in China (2011); Memories of Cinema at the IVth Guangzhou Triennial, 2011; the exhibitions तह-सतह: A Very Deep Surface, Mani Kaul and Ranbir Singh Kaleka: Between Film and Video at the Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur (Jan-Mar 2017) and Duniya Parchhaiyon Ki at Arthshila, Delhi (Sept–Dec 2025).