Hey! I'm Shaurya Thapa
A multimedia journalist with newsroom experience and skills ranging from writing to research to sound/photo editing. My interests include pop culture, cinema, music, art, and everything that comes in between.
Here’s My Story
Tracing my familial roots in Nepal, born and brought up in India and now based in London, I think I was destined to be "a man of culture" (hope that doesn't sound too tacky, eh). Having worked as a freelancer and a regular contributor for publications like Screen Rant, Time Out, Metro, AV Club, etc, I'm convinced that journalism is my calling (even if it isn't, I doubt I'm good at anything else). Scroll below for my writing and multimedia work.
Welcome aboard the U.S.S. Thapa!
My Experience So Far
Education
BA (H) in History
Hindu College, Delhi University
Post-Graduate Diploma in Journalism
Asian College of Journalism, Chennai (India)
MA in Multimedia Journalism
University of Westminster, London
Professional Work
Freelance Writer
Sub-Editor
Screen Rant
DailyO (India Today)
Freelance Writer
Sub-Editor
JustWatch
India Today
Web Editor
Music Critic/Reporter
DU Beat
The Score
Other freelance contributions
Screen Daily, Dread Central, TimeOut London, Metro UK, Broadcast Now, Borrowing Tape, Film Companion, Comic Book Resources (CBR), Firstpost, LiveWire (The Wire),
The Citizen, sbcltr
Skills & Interests
Writing and research on
Cinema and Music
Feature Writing
Video and Audio Editing
Interviewing/On-Camera presenting
Live-Blogging
SEO Optimisation
Podcasting
Adobe InDesign
Data visualisation
Adobe Premiere Pro/InShot
Interactive Multi-Media Journalism
Comic/Meme Storytelling
Proficiency In English & Hindi
Specialisation in History
FILM & TV
reports, listicles, interviews, explainers, essays, reviews
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VIDEO JOURNALISM
I've contributed to 400+ videos for Screen Rant as a video script writer and an assistant video editor. These videos cover entertainment news, interviews, and pop culture theories.
54k views
33k views
That's me with acclaimed Indian director Anurag Kashyap (Gangs of Wasseypur, Black Friday). Interviewed him at the London Indian Film Festival 2023.
original stories that I helped break
Pakistani
Rambo
The queen
of Indian Drag
profile on Pakistani stuntman-turned-actor/director Shahzel Syed (for India Today)
profile on Nitish Anand aka "Shabnam Bewafa", the then-youngest drag queen in India (for The Citizen)
Green Trees
Green money
KIM JONG UN
(the lookalike)
a feature/interview with a man who camped outside the homes of Bollywood stars for weeks (to get funding for his environmentalist film) (for DailyO)
profile on Howard X, a professional impersonator of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un (for sbcltr)
The musical marvels
of MS Marvel
a music feature on the soundtrack of
the superhero series Ms Marvel
(with observations from the Pakistani and
Indian artists involved) (for India Today)
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CHITTY CHITTY
STAMP STAMP
feature on the last of stamp-collectors and stamp-sellers in Delhi (for The Citizen)
music feature on female representation in Indian hip-hop (for The Score)
MORE THAN A
BOYS' CLUB
TRUE CRIMES
GOOD VIBES
lifestyle feature on the growing demand of true crime shows in India (with insights from psychologists and streaming executives)
(for DailyO)
news story on the arms trade and sale of guns in Delhi, India (for The Citizen)
BANG BANG! BAM BLAM!
That's a random image of me with Boris Johnson impersonator Drew Galdron ("Faux BoJo). Of course, we met at a pub...
My mentors
Just some journalists I respect and got the chance to work/intern under
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Music
(Reviews, Interviews, Features)
Weekly music reviews along with news and feature pieces on the Indian independent music scene.
Artist interviews with Bawari Basanti (Delhi based folk fusion singer), Shan Vincent De Paul (Canadian-Sri Lankan rapper), Madame Gandhi (American-Indian producer and singer) and Rishabh Seen (frontman of the band Sitar Metal)
Content curator for Delhi-based music fest Groove Gully's website, writing a large chunk of the site's informative articles on music.
"Hip-Hop in the Crossfire" is a multimedia long read, several months in the making, that found me examining the Israel-Palestine conflict through a hip-hop lens. My sources included rappers from the region as well as pro-Palestine and pro-Israel artistic voices from the UK, Canada, Iran, Afghanistan, and so on. The story includes original interviews, concert recordings, and curated playlists.
Podcasts and Interviews
For the London-based film website Borrowing Tape, I have been a regular host on Behind the Lens - a podcast that features interviews with mainstream and indie directors. My interviewees include Oscar winners, film festival standouts, and blockbuster filmmakers.
Gints Zilbalodis
Oscar and Golden Globe-winning director of Flow (Best Animated Feature-2025). The first Latvian to achieve these two honours.
Simon West
Hossein Molayemi and
Shirin Sohani
Iranian Oscar-winning director duo behind In The Shadow of the Cypress (Best Animated Short-2025)
Adam J Grave
Magnus Von Horn
Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated director behind Danish psychological horror The Girl with The Needle.
Ariane Louis-Seize
Director behind action hits like Con-Air, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, and The Expendables 2. Also directed Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up music video
Oscar-nominated director behind Anuja, an Indian short film on Netflix (Best Live-Action Feature-2025)
Canadian director behind the French-language dark comedy Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person. An acclaim debut feature, it won several accolades at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.
Podcast
BhindiWire
In 2021, I ran the movie-centric podcast Bhindi Wire in which I, my colleagues and featured guests talk about trends in global and Indian cinema and TV. The name is a play on the word Indie Wire (the American film publication).
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Apart from discussing new releases and predicting awards, I and my co-hosts occasionally had guests over. A case in point is the episode with MARCO KYRIS, Nicolas Cage's stand-in for movies like FACE-OFF and NATIONAL TREASURE.
Work featured in...
The Guardian
The Guardian's news report on a Netflix true crime series cited one of my DailyO explainers as one of the sources.
Wikipedia
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
Deccan Chronicle
Instagram Reels (and Reach)
I have a passion for creating video essay reels and comedic videos, some of which have amassed millions of views. I have created such reels for my personal Instagram account and DailyO (when I served as sub-editor).
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Insta Content (satirical poetry)
For my personal Instagram (@dalai_thapa), I have been creating text posts on English and Hindi poems talking about recent current affairs and my personal opinions. I mostly write under the pseudonym Poopy/Snoopy Kaur (a pun on the best-selling Canadian-Indian poet Rupi Kaur). I write and create posts on Canva. A few examples are below.
shaurya thapa
mail me: shauryasinghthapa@gmail.com
call me: +44 7438 327 373
knock at my door: SE28 8AP
instagram- @dalai_thapa
X (twitter)- @shaurya_thapa
