Interview: 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...
View ArticleReaders Write In #1155: Dorothy
By ‘Pro-anon’ I am not interested in talking about ongoing controversial topics in discussion. Maybe am not yet comfortable with that climax too, art is meant to do that. But I definitely think movie...
View ArticleRam’s ‘Yezhu Kadal Yezhu Malai’ is a unique fantasy-drama that talks about...
Nivin Pauly plays a man who is thousands of years old. He says the number is 8000, but who really knows! Soori plays an Everyman like you or me, someone who is working hard for his family and who...
View ArticleInterview: Sundeep Kishan (‘Sigma’)
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View ArticleReaders Write In #1154: Dorothy – I haven’t seen it yet…
By ‘Pro-anon’ Our Superstar, at a press conference in Mumbai, was asked if he had a dream role, and he answered: a transgender. That has roots in one of his early movies, Billa. Watch out for his...
View ArticleInterview: Fahadh Faasil, SS Karthikeya (‘Don’t Trouble The Trouble’)
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View ArticleReaders Write In #1146: Dorothy Movie Review: Karthik Subbaraj Delivers A...
About Dorothy Dorothy is one of those hard-hitting films that mainstream Indian cinema rarely attempts. What makes the film even more intriguing is the fact that it comes from Karthik Subbaraj, a...
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