High On Films

Deepansh Duggal is a film critic and culture journalist based in India, with over seven years of experience writing on cinema, books, and popular culture. His work has appeared in Hindustan Times, Economic Times, NDTV, The Hindu and Firstpost. His criticism is rooted in close textual reading and socio-political analysis, with a particular interest in anti-capitalist narratives, labour, power, and ideology in mainstream and independent cinema. He has covered major international film festivals, including the Tribeca Film Festival. Alongside journalism, he creates short- and long-form video content examining how films function as cultural products shaped by markets, myths, and audience psychology.