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Ajitpal Singh’s ‘Fire In the Mountains’, on SonyLIV, peels back the beauty of the mountains to gaze at stark realities
May 31, 2023
Spoilers ahead… This assured film is a chronicle of contrasts: man versus woman, blind faith versus practicality, progress versus status-quo… Fire In the Mountains runs just eighty-something minutes and it’s Ajitpal Singh’s debut feature. It premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, and is centred on a family in a remote Himalayan village. On the […]
Akhil Sathyan’s ‘Pachuvum Athbutha Vilakkum’, on Prime Video, is proof that templates are never an issue if the storytelling is strong
May 31, 2023
Spoilers ahead… Fahadh Faasil shows us how a thinking performer can freshen up a familiar role, but the film belongs to three women from three generations: Anjana Jayaprakash, Viji Venkatesh, and young Dhwani Rajesh. In Vinodayathra, a flawed but essentially good-natured man learns a bunch of life lessons from the people around him. In Jomonte […]
Posted in: Cinema: Malayalam, OTT / TV / Online
Interview: Sohum Shah (Maharani on SonyLIV, Dahaad on Amazon Prime Video)
May 30, 2023
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Readers Write In #582: The Story of Allen Dulles and his CIA
May 30, 2023
By Jeeva The USSR despite its flaws, if anything was considered world over as a force that could threaten the unholy interests of the rich and the ultra-rich. The ultra-rich elite of the 20th century was neither a restricted, national entity nor just a bunch of industrialists harmlessly running their business operations within their narrow […]
Readers Write In #581: Virupaksha: The Succubus lies in the details
May 29, 2023
By Vishnu Mahesh Sharma @ vishnumaheshsharma@gmail.com We have seen so many films where the hero meets the heroine when the heroine is accomplishing an act of theft. Case in point Amar Akbar Anthony, Parvarish and Thupparivaalan. In these kind of films, this portion, apart from giving the heroine melodramatic reasons/motives for theft, doubles up as […]
Posted in: Cinema: Telugu, Readers Write In
From the Web (FTW) #9: Martin Scorsese on the Importance of Visual Literacy
May 29, 2023
Posted in: Cinema, From the Web
BR Live Season 2
May 29, 2023
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Thank you so much for this appreciation, Bits Of Info Tamil
May 28, 2023
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From the Web (FTW) #8: Nenendu Vethugudura (a translation)
May 28, 2023
This is a translation by V Vijaysee (who comments here as Vijee) of a Tamil short story by Lalitharam, based on a real-life incident from the life of the nagaswara vidwan Karukurichi Arunachalam. Author’s Note: Recently, I translated a Tamil short story by Lalitharam based on a real-life incident from the life of the nagaswaram vidwan, […]
Readers Write In #580: The Imposter – The ramblings of a fundamentally uninteresting man
May 26, 2023
By Kanhu Kishore I want to tell you a story. A story probably worth telling, at least I think so. Some names are changed because well, it’s a story. So, let’s start. Yeah, let’s start. But where to start, I don’t know. I am in this situation where I feel shitty all the time. […]
Posted in: Fiction, Readers Write In
Readers Write In #579: Daredevil Musthafa (DDM) – An outsider’s view
May 26, 2023
By Salini Senthil A lack of outrageous fanfare before the release seems to be the modern indicator of silently well-made, small-budget independent movies, in our current time and age. After a silent 2018 made silent waves through theatres to my heartwarming appreciation (i was not a fan of the triumphs The Kerala story saw in […]
Posted in: Cinema: Kannada, Readers Write In
Achyut Vinayak’s ‘Thrishanku’, with Anna Ben and Arjun Ashokan, has a super premise, but it’s content to remain a pleasant watch instead of the all-out riot it could have become
May 26, 2023
Spoilers ahead… For about a half-hour, I was in comedy heaven. But these situations are not pushed enough. They are not milked enough for jokes. After a point, the writing becomes super-convenient. In her first film, Kumbalangi Nights, Anna Ben was stuck with a psychotic brother-in-law. Since then, she has been thrown into a freezer […]
Posted in: Cinema: Malayalam
Shashank Soghal’s ‘Daredevil Musthafa’ is a laid-back charmer filled with newcomers, and it covers up its flaws with a massive dose of can-do spirit
May 26, 2023
Spoilers ahead… It’s refreshing to see the messaging about religious tolerance come right out of the events rather than being put out as preachy dialogues. Very early in Daredevil Musthafa, we see this line: “For the first time, the fans of a writer have produced a film.” The writer is Poornachandra Tejaswi, and the fans […]
Posted in: Cinema: Kannada
Interview: Sarathkumar (Por Thozhil, etc.)
May 25, 2023
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Posted in: Cinema: Tamil, Interview
Interview: Anna Ben / ‘Andhadhun’ producer Sarita Patil (Thrishanku)
May 23, 2023
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Posted in: Cinema: Malayalam, Interview
Readers Write In #578: Succession – A Saga of Kendall and Logan
May 23, 2023
By Kartik Iyer The things that stand out about Brian Cox, who plays the character of Logan Roy in Succession, are his nose, jaws, and eyes. The jaws get a helping from the white-grey beard, but his nose and eyes appear as they are: stark, sharp, and cold. Logan has the capacity to unnerve people with […]
Apoorv Singh Karki’s ‘Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai’ is an earnest, well-acted courtroom drama that needed more tension
May 22, 2023
Spoilers ahead… Manoj Bajpayee’s performance is both an incarnation as well as an acting lesson on how to mug up a big speech and deliver it as though the words are coming out of your mouth for the very first time. Apoorv Singh Karki’s Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai is based on the 2013 child […]
Posted in: Cinema: Hindi, OTT / TV / Online
Yashowardhan Mishra’s ‘Kathal’, on Netflix, is a gently amusing detective story-cum-social commentary that involves missing jackfruits
May 22, 2023
Spoilers ahead… Not all jokes hit the mark, but if you catch the film’s vibe, there’s enough foolishness for a pleasant – if unremarkable – couple of hours. Can you make comedy from “serious social issues” like caste discrimination and patriarchy? Vignesh Shivan proved that you could. In his delightful episode in the Tamil anthology […]
Posted in: Cinema: Hindi, OTT / TV / Online
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