Interview: Anl Arasu, the first recipient of the National Film Award for Best...
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View ArticleRahul Sankrityan’s ‘Ranabaali’ is an ambitious period saga that’s better with...
In pre-Independence India, the British want to export grain to their motherland. To accomplish this, they build railroads from faraway villages in Rayalaseema to the Madras coast, where a ship awaits....
View ArticleReaders Write In #1175: Jailer 2: The Anatomy of Anticipation, Mythic...
By Premkumar Ethirajulu They say one of the greatest sources of happiness is anticipation itself, and I know that truth because I have lived it through Rajini. The waiting has always been its own...
View ArticleReaders Write In #1172: Jailer 2 Review: Rajinikanth & Nelson provide us with...
By Raghav Ravichandran Rajinikanth got a commercial blockbuster after a long hiatus with Jailer, despite the pandemic effect. Nelson delivered proper fan service, as he is a Rajini fan himself. Now,...
View ArticleReaders Write In #1171: Nelson’Beast: A parodical take on the hostage drama...
By Premkumar Ethirajulu The film doesn’t take itself seriously, just like Nelson’s previous films. Beast had been in the news since its announcement, and the buzz was further amplified by its fantastic...
View ArticleInterview: Rahul Sankrityan (‘Ranabaali’)
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View ArticleReaders Write In #1165: Sandeep Reddy Vanga, Arjun Reddy and Animal
By Thupparivaalan Justice and punishment are both based on causality and free will. Someone did something that led to harmful consequences – this someone was the cause of those harmful consequences, he...
View ArticleInterview: Balaji Tharaneetharan (‘Baththa’)
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View ArticleFrom the Web (FTW) #44: Dorothy – A Doctor’s View
Hi Baradwaj, Greetings. I’m Dr. Hari, a regular reader of your blog. I had earlier shared excerpts from my book ‘A STREET PUPPY’S GUIDE TO INDIAN RELIGIOUS WISDOM’ with you, which you were kind enough...
View ArticleReaders Write In #1160: Delving into the Immortal’s Journey in Ram’s Yezhu...
By Premkumar Ethirajulu SPOILER ALERT One thing about Yezhu Kadal Yezhu Malai kept bothering me long after I finished thinking about the film: Ram never gives the name to the central characters. In...
View ArticleInterview: Arjun Das, Aishwarya Lekshmi (#love)
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View ArticleFarewell, Singeetham Srinivasa Rao (1931-2026)
I woke up to the news that Singeetham Srinivasa Rao had died, I had mixed feelings: the sadness that a beloved filmmaker had passed, and also the happiness that he died as a filmmaker. Singeetham...
View ArticleR Kaarthikeyan’s ‘Anbil Avan’ is an ultra-generic love story and a slightly...
Ashok Selvan and Preity Mukhundhan play Surya and Iyal, a couple slogging away at routine day jobs. They dream of opening a homestay, and soon enough, they find the ideal place. But now, the local MLA...
View ArticleJason Sanjay’s ‘Sigma’ looks like it wants to be a retro thriller, but it’s...
Sundeep Kishan plays Guru, a man who’s down on his luck and is heavily in debt. On the other side, the man with tons of money is a gangster named Kotalapadi Veerayya Reddy, played by Sampath. We seem...
View ArticleBalaji Tharaneetharan’s ‘Baththa’ is a wholesome, heartwarming, and often...
A week after ‘Dorothy’, we get another exploration of certain aspects of masculinity – but this time, in a lighter flavour. Vijay Sethupathi plays a swaggering rowdy named Baththa. His reign of terror...
View ArticleReaders Write In #1156: Ezhu Kadal Ezhu Malai: Catharsis Through a Waking...
By Premkumar Ethirajulu When I watch Director Ram’s films, I always feel he works from a deeply intellectual thesis, meticulously building his premises and characters around it. For instance, when I...
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