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Dr. Piyush Roy (born 1974) is an Indian film critic, curator, author, filmmaker, cinema scholar, cultural ambassador and winner of the Best Film Critic ‘Special Mention’ at the 60th Indian National Film Awards 2013 for “in-depth knowledge of cinema.”[ ]The ‘Special Mention’ award was given for 2012 after a gap of six years [ ] Roy has been theeditor of Stardust, a leading Bollywood magazine and StarWeek, an Indian film weekly. He has curatedIndian cinema-themed festivals and seasons in Cardiff and Edinburgh, and conceived and directedthe first Edinburgh Festival of Indian Films &Documentaries (EFIFD) in September 2016.[ ] One ofthe highlights of EFIFD 2016 was the last retrospective on Om Puri, which was attended bythe acting legend before his death, and Scottish premieres of four regional Indian films and documentaries.[4] [5] As an author, he has published two works of fiction entitled Never Say Never Again and Alexander – An Epic Love Story in 2007.In 2014, he was awarded the Sir William Darling Memorial Prize as ‘the student who has done most to enhance or advance the reputation of the University’ by the Principal of the University of Edinburgh. Roy became the first Indian scholar to achieve a doctorate in ‘Indian Cinema Studies’ from the University of Edinburgh in 2017. His thesis argues for engaging with the Nāṭyaśāstra’s(the ancient Indian Sanskrit Drama treatise)[5] ‘Theory of Rasas’ for a fair and informed review and understanding of the melodramatic attributes of Indian cinema, the unique aspects of its ‘masala’[ ]narrative structure and the acting achievements in stylised, expressive performances.