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Interview: KS Ravikumar (‘Hit List’, Kamal, Rajini…)
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Interview: Soori (‘Garudan’)
May 28, 2024
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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 […]
Interview: Nikil Murugan (Tamil cinema P.R.O.)
May 2, 2024
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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 […]
Interview: Kavin (‘Star’)
April 27, 2024
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Hari’s ‘Rathnam’ is the expected template film, with no great effort to make it anything but a template film
April 26, 2024
The film stars Vishal, Priya Bhavani Shankar. There are some interesting ideas, but none of them are allowed to take root amidst all the speed. If a film wants to be a template film and it ends up being a template film, then is there any point in saying that this film is just a […]
Interview: Hari (‘Rathnam’)
April 25, 2024
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Interview: Elan (‘Star’)
April 9, 2024
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Kairam Vaashi reviews Parasuram Petla’s ‘Family Star’:
April 6, 2024
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Readers Write In #679: A Feast of a Song
March 19, 2024
By V Vijaysree The menu items to be served on the banana leaf are in steaming cauldrons, fresh off the stove. The laddoo, the murukku, the jalebi and the rest of the goody bag items have been ready for a while. But the duo from the groom’s side insists that there is still one key […]
Readers Write In #678: The Messiah Among the Sands
March 18, 2024
By Pranav Madathil ‘Dune’, ‘Aayirathil Oruvan’, ‘Khaleja’, and prophetic protagonist problems SPOILERS AHEAD When Stilgar, played by an almost unrecognizable Javier Bardem, first whispered to himself that the young Paul Atreides was ‘lisan-al-gaib’ – the outworlder fated to redeem not only his people (the Fremen) but his whole planet (Arrakis/ Dune), I was overcome by […]
Suresh Mari’s ‘J.Baby’ is a solid drama about a family that has to deal with mental illness, among other things
March 9, 2024
The film stars Urvasi, Dinesh, and many others. Sure, the story could have been told better, less loud, but many portions work. Here’s how Suresh Mari’s J.Baby begins. Senthil and Shankar are brothers, played by ‘Lollu Sabha’ Maaran and Dinesh. They are summoned to the police station, for reasons concerning their mother, named J.Baby (Urvashi). The policeman […]
Gautham Vasudev Menon’s ‘Joshua’ is an underwhelming affair, an action B-movie with no pulp thrills
March 1, 2024
The film stars Varun and Raahei. The slickly staged action sequences aren’t bad, but the movie wants to be more and that’s the problem. “Imai Pol Kaakha” is the tagline for Gautham Vasudev Menon’s new movie, titled Joshua. The tagline sounds so poetic, something right out of the Maruvaarthai song from one of this director’s […]
Berlinale 2024, Post #21: Interview: Anna Ben (‘Kottukkaali’)
February 25, 2024
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Berlinale 2024, Post #20: Interview: PS Vinothraj (About the ‘Kottukkaali’ team)
February 25, 2024
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Readers Write In #669: Raking up dirt on Silk Smitha
February 25, 2024
By Lakshman Sethuraman The Dirty Picture (TDP) was released on December 2nd , 2011, on Silk Smitha’s birthday. She would have turned 51 on the day if she’d been around. The writers of The Dirty Picture claimed (according to the movie’s Wikipedia entry) that ‘they found little material in magazines of that period, as women […]
Berlinale 2024, Post #16: Interview: Soori (‘Kottukkaali’: The Adamant Girl)
February 23, 2024
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Berlinale 2024, Post #14: Interview: PS Vinothraj (‘Kottukkaali’: The Adamant Girl)
February 22, 2024
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