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Lights, Camera, Analysis: Prashanth Neel (KGF 1 & 2)
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Readers Write In #469: Random Ramblings of a Mediocre Mind
June 20, 2022
By Severus Snape I am 18, a college fresher, and I like to be cool. I like to have people praise me; I want to stand out from the crowd. I want to participate in several clubs; it sounds cool to say, “Oh, I made a clock using Arduino and designed an app to display […]
Posted in: Personal, Readers Write In
Gagan Dhuan Dhuan
June 20, 2022
One of the characteristics of Impressionism is that the further you are the “clearer” the art form gets. This composition is a beautiful instance of the style. The asymmetry of the tune and the orchestral bits keep us at a distance — and we are not able to “put together he whole” at once. But […]
Posted in: Music: Non-Film
Readers Write In #468: Song of the Road – Novel and Film
June 16, 2022
By Deepika Santhanakrishnan Bends in the Road is what the translators of Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay’s novel ‘Pather Panchali’ (1929) found it apt to name. They attributed the suggestion to the horizontal bends of a w(o)andering life’s journey. Well, I attribute it to the vertical bends in life as well. The former in the case of the […]
Interview: Sai Pallavi and Rana Daggubati (Virata Parvam)
June 15, 2022
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Posted in: Cinema: Telugu, Interview
Interview: RJ Balaji (Veetla Vishesham)
June 15, 2022
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Posted in: Cinema: Tamil, Interview
Jis Joy’s ‘Innale Vare’ is a pretty engaging thriller with Asif Ali and Nimisha Sajayan in top form
June 10, 2022
Spoilers ahead… Building up a thriller is half the struggle. The “how will they end it” question is the other half. Both are satisfactory. Is Innale Vare a cautionary tale about technology? Or is it a cautionary tale about human behaviour? The first thing we see in Jis Joy’s film is a piece of technology: […]
Posted in: Cinema: Malayalam, Television / Online
Readers Write In #467: The need for superheroes in a modern society
June 10, 2022
By Prakash Alagarsamy I recently watched the movie “Vikram”. The movie was good. Definitely could have been better. I loved talking about it with my family members about it. Don’t know the last time a mass movie did that. So definitely a win in that aspect. But u digress. This post is about something that […]
Rakshit Shetty and the labrador are terrific in Kiranraj K’s ‘777 Charlie’, but the film’s ambition is not matched by the execution
June 10, 2022
Spoilers ahead… Each episode should lead organically to the next one, but we get the feel of standalone scenes, some of which could be cut with no harm to this overlong movie. The premise of Kiranraj K’s 777 Charlie is summed up in the first lines we hear: If you are lucky, a dog will […]
Posted in: Cinema: Kannada
Readers Write In #466: The Thrill of Top Gun and Tom “Maverick” Cruise
June 10, 2022
By Aman Basha A slightly spoilery and wholly praise filled ream of prose on the summer Hollywood movie of the year The double tragic whammy of 2020 and 2021 were supposed to alter the world in ways unrecognizable to anything we had seen before. Interviews involving studio heads, trade analysts and other people in the […]
Posted in: Cinema: English, Readers Write In
Lights, Camera, Analysis: Lokesh Kanagaraj (Vikram)
June 10, 2022
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10 Questions: Rakshit Shetty (777 Charlie)
June 8, 2022
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Posted in: 10 Questions, Cinema: Kannada
Event in Chennai
June 8, 2022
Medai @medai_thestage wanted to do an event with me. The result is a live version of AskBR, where we can hopefully chat a lot about cinema. Tickets at BookMyShow.https://t.co/kqxxWpsLwm — Baradwaj Rangan (@baradwajrangan) June 7, 2022
Posted in: #AskBR / #QnA, Personal
10 Questions: Nani / Nazriya Nazim (Ante Sundaraniki)
June 6, 2022
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Posted in: 10 Questions, Cinema: Telugu
Chandraprakash Dwivedi and Akshay Kumar serve us a tedious and overly talky historical epic
June 4, 2022
Spoilers ahead… What we want is an action-packed epic. What we get is a series of monologues and dialogues, occasionally interrupted by action. Chandraprakash Dwivedi is best known for his 1991/92 series Chanakya, which was telecast on Doordarshan. It was a talky affair, but then, that was the entire point of the narrative. Chanakya was […]
Posted in: Cinema: Hindi
Lokesh Kanagaraj and Kamal Haasan make history by giving Tamil cinema its first real genre-specific “action movie”
June 3, 2022
Spoilers ahead… You get all the emotion you need from Kamal’s eyes or from Fahadh Faasil’s sly body language. Fahadh manages the considerable feat of almost stealing a Kamal movie. If Martin Scorsese and Timothy Dalton’s James Bond had a baby, it would be something like Vikram. This is a drug-filled gangster movie, filled wall-to-wall […]
Posted in: Cinema: Tamil
10 Questions: Lokesh Kanagaraj
June 2, 2022
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Posted in: Cinema: Tamil, Interview
Readers Write In #465: In ‘Toolsidas Junior’ Other than Snooker, Motivational Lessons to Learn
June 1, 2022
By Carlos Luis ‘Toolsidas Junior’ by Mridul Mahendra might not be as celebrated as other sports dramas in India, but it happens to give one of the first representations to a game of snooker as a sport in India. It is inspired by a true story of the life of Mridul Mahendra, the writer-director of […]
Posted in: Cinema: Hindi, Readers Write In
Abhijith Joseph’s cop-thriller ‘John Luther’, starring Jayasurya, has some good ideas that are let down by the writing
May 31, 2022
Spoilers ahead… The cleverest touch is something that happens to Jayasurya, something that hinders his job. There’s not an iota of sadness or self-pity. The work must go on. It’s strange how two films released the same week are so similar, yet so different. Rajeev Ravi’s Kuttavum Shikshayum is about cops investigating a case. Broadly […]
Posted in: Cinema: Malayalam
Interview: Rakshit Shetty (777 Charlie)
May 30, 2022
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Posted in: Cinema: Hindi, Cinema: Kannada, Cinema: Malayalam, Cinema: Tamil, Cinema: Telugu, Interview
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