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Interview: Sanjay Leela Bhansali (‘Heeramandi’)
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Readers Write In #696: The ‘Dark’ Past
May 18, 2024
By G Waugh It sometimes boggles my mind when I think about how much of my unnecessary past I carry with me. Any offhand comment, or a passing observation, a casually generated thought tossed off like a used cigarette butt by someone in the days of our growing up may get stuck in our minds […]
Vipin Das’s ‘Guruvayoor Ambalanadayil’ is an easy watch, but this solid premise should have generated more laughs
May 16, 2024
The film stars Prithviraj Sukumaran, Basil Joseph. Not all the jokes land, and the second half, especially, dips in momentum. When I interviewed director Hari before the release of Rathnam, he said it was important that the big heroes do more films per year, instead of concentrating on just one potential mega-blockbuster at a time. […]
Interview: A deep dive into STAR, with director Elan
May 14, 2024
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Readers Write In #695: குடும்ப தலைவன்
May 12, 2024
By Soorya N திவாகர் தன்னுடைய தங்கை செண்பகத்தை காண, போன வாரம் , செவ்வாய்க்கிழமை சென்றான்.இன்று வெள்ளிக்கிழமை . ஒன்பது நாள் ஆகிவிட்டது. இன்னும் அவர் வரல. போன் பண்ணல .நாளைக்கு வரேன், நாளைக்கு வரேன்னு ரெண்டு நாளா சொல்றார். அவர் வந்தாதான், வீட்டு வாடகை, சாமான், காய்கறி , ராஜாவுக்கு மாச வட்டி எல்லாம் கொடுக்க முடியும். இதுல மாத்திரைலாம் வேற வாங்கணும். இரண்டாம் தேதியே எல்லாம் என்ன வந்து வரவேற்பாங்க.வட்டி காரன்ல இருந்து […]
Readers Write In #694: One Nation One Election- a leftist perspective/rant
May 12, 2024
By G Waugh It sometimes pains me to think that most people, a majority of us, laymen and the educated alike, while assuming that we are socially conscious citizens, often care very less about what exactly needs to be cared the most – the economy. When I say economy, I hate to use terms that […]
Interview: Sab John Edathattil (the writer of ‘Guna’, and screenwriting teacher)
May 11, 2024
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In ‘Star’, Elan and Kavin and Yuvan put on a show that proves that the mainstream can indeed be a place for good, ambitious ‘cinema’
May 10, 2024
The film also stars Lal, Geetha Kailasam, Preity Mukhundhan and Aaditi Pohankar. It is a prickly, thorns-and-all life story of a man who wants to become a star There is a stunning moment in Star that involves someone travelling. An overhead shot captures them on the road, and then something dramatic happens – and you […]
Tushar Hiranandani’s ‘Srikanth’ downplays the struggles of a visually impaired achiever and gives us a relentlessly upbeat, simplistic feel-good tale
May 10, 2024
The film stars a terrific Rajkummar Rao, along with Jyotika, Alaya F, Sharad Kelkar. The narrative clicks only in the last stretch, when we get to see shades of grey. In the early 1990s, a boy is born in a village in Andhra Pradesh. The child cannot see. The parents are poor, and the prospect […]
Interview: Samyuktha (‘Virupaksha’, ‘Theevandi’, ‘Sir’)
May 9, 2024
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Interview: Rajkummar Rao (‘Srikanth’)
May 7, 2024
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Interview: Anushka Sen (‘Dil Dosti Dilemma’)
May 6, 2024
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Interview: Vipin Das (‘Guruvayoor Ambala Nadayil’)
May 4, 2024
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Readers Write In #693: Can ten days of meditation change your life?
May 4, 2024
By Hari PR In this post, I try mostly to make sense of the ten days I spent in a vipassana meditation course of ten days. I have dabbled in meditation before and have also participated in a few online meditation communities. My pet theory is that ‘serious’ meditation practice (lasting for about an hour everyday or […]
Readers Write In #692: Celebrating Chandrabose
May 4, 2024
By Aman Basha As his most awaited work for Pushpa The Rule releases, a look back at my Chandrabose favorites. It is not much of a debate to call Chandrabose the most acclaimed Telugu lyricist of his age, and this was even before his Namaste at the Oscars. Great Telugu lyricists before Chandrabose had come […]
Interview: Nikil Murugan (Tamil cinema P.R.O.)
May 2, 2024
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Remembering Uma Ramanan!
May 2, 2024
Dijo Jose Antony’s ‘Malayalee from India’ has some big laughs, but it’s mostly a preachy, very obvious take on Hindu-Muslim brotherhood
May 1, 2024
The film stars Nivin Pauly, Dhyan. The message is so obvious that you see the ending from a mile away. The opening stretch of Malayalee from India deposits us on a mountain road, as a Hindi song with sad lyrics plays in the background: “Dilon mein faasle hain… Yeh kaisi khamoshi hai…” The words talk […]
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Heeramandi’ is top-notch entertainment: a genteel mix of deceit, intrigue, the fight for freedom, and the fight for love
May 1, 2024
The Netflix series stars Manisha Koirala, Sonakshi Sinha, Aditi Rao Hydari, among many, many others. The eight-episode format allows Bhansali to be more patient with his material, and the result is lovely, mellow storytelling. What would you call a willful woman who insists that her daughter follow the family tradition of becoming a tawaif, a […]
On the big screen, after 20 years, Dharani’s ‘Ghilli’ still works better than most hero-oriented movies made today
April 28, 2024
The film stars Vijay, Trisha, Prakash Raj. The only thing to say about it is that it still holds up. Let’s go back to April 17, 2004, the day Ghilli was released. The new millennium had seen the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers: Bala in December 1999 (so you can cheat a bit […]
Baradwaj Rangan 
May 18, 2024
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