The Love Song of Alfred Hitchcock

The Love Song of Alfred Hitchcock (written in 1991, published in 1994), Hitchcock’s intervention (1994) and Music is a time-Art (1995), the three tales that are collected here, have one thing in common: they are all somehow related, in varying degrees, to the world of films, with the first two specifically invoking Alfred Hitchcock. The cinema, for Maythil Radhakrishnan, often provides either a launching pad or a frame of reference. The Love Song of Alfred Hitchcock, for instance, is a kind of murder mystery that explores questions of love and death – way quite unprecedented in Indian fiction-through an invocation of the master of suspense. It is suspenseful and peculiarly meditative at the same time – a quality directly captured in the title itself where Alfred Hitchcock and T S Eliot come together. Should I…Have the Strength to force the moment to its crisis?