Readers 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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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...
View ArticleDD Balachandran’s ‘Lenin Pandian’ is a not-bad coming-of-age story that lies...
Gangai Amaran and Roja are lovely as Dorairasu and Sandhanam, an adorable couple in a village. When their goat is killed by a truck belonging to a sand-mining mafia, Dorairasu goes to court, and you...
View ArticleHiphop Tamizha’s ‘Meesaya Murukku 2’ talks about equality in a manner that’s...
Hiphop Tamizha Adhi plays three roles. He is the grandfather, father, and son in a family of gaana singers. Unlike the usual Tamil film, ‘Meesaya Murukku 2’ is surprisingly inclusive. Instead of piling...
View ArticleInterview: Gangai Amaran (‘Lenin Pandian’)
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View ArticleSajeev Pazhoor’s ‘Enna Vilai’ is a good story that would have been far better...
Karunas gives an effective, emotionally naked performance as Thavasi, a fisherman from Rameswaram who finds a precious ornament and then gets into trouble with the police. Nimisha Sajayan plays the...
View ArticleInterview: Jason Sanjay (‘Sigma’)
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View ArticleReaders Write In #1141: Star Gazing
By Karthik Amarnath Moneyball had no right being this good a movie, let alone being a movie at all. Sure it’s about a sport, but the sport is baseball. I dont know if you’ve been to a baseball game. I...
View ArticleInterview: Hiphop Tamizha Adhi (‘Meesaya Murukku 2’)
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View ArticleReaders Write In #1140: The Familiar Stranger: On Clara, Radha, Mithra and...
By Premkumar Ethirajulu Back in 2009–10, in a phase when I had a lot of “me time,” I went on a run of watching as many films as I could, especially the classics from the 1980s and 90s. I watched...
View ArticleThe Paradise
Blurb Text You can read the rest of the review here: https://galattaplus.com/rajkumar-santoshis-batwara-1947-is-an-easy-watch-partition-drama-that-needed-to-hit-harder-dig-deeper/ You can watch the...
View ArticleReaders Write In #1138: Literature and Cinema
By Aman Basha Ruminations on three films and their respective relationships with popular works of literature. It seems the second week of August 2026 would forever exist in my memory as the week where...
View ArticleReaders Write In #1137: Lubber Pandhu: Confrontation, Assertion and Inception
By SS Jayasuriya In Inception, the fantastical premise is treated almost like an engineering problem. Dreams have rules, layers and architecture. An idea cannot simply be announced to another person...
View ArticleReaders Write In #1132: Naan Malarodu
By mvky Naan malarodu thaniyaga enindruOriginal Hindi version tujhe pyaar karte karte rahengeOne of my favourite song in both tamil and Hindi. Jaishankar and L Vijayalakshmi sang this song in a park....
View ArticleInterview: Guru Somasundaram (‘Paris Cafe’, ‘Demonte Colony 3’)
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