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Anubhav Sinha’s ‘Bheed’, based on pandemic-migration, is a solid addition to his series of social cinema
Spoilers ahead… Though Rajkummar Rao plays the nominal protagonist and gets a small character-growth arc, this is a film that belongs to everyone, the ‘bheed’. PIC Anubhav Sinha’s latest attempt at movie-making / conscience-pricking / dialogue-initiating is titled Bheed, and it gets going 13 days after the first pandemic-lockdown, when more migrants began walking […]
Posted in: Cinema: Hindi
Interview: MM Keeravani (RRR, Oscar-winner)
March 25, 2023
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Posted in: Cinema: Hindi, Cinema: Kannada, Cinema: Malayalam, Cinema: Tamil, Cinema: Telugu, Interview
‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 12: Analysing five scenes from ‘Dada’, ‘OK Kanmani’, ‘VTK’, ‘Sarpatta Parambara’, ‘Anbe Sivam’
March 24, 2023
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Posted in: Cinema: Tamil, Spotify: Cinema with BR
Krishand’s crime-comedy ‘Purusha Pretham’ (on SonyLIV) offers a few big laughs, but not nearly enough to sustain its overlong run time
March 24, 2023
Spoilers ahead… The film, led by a superb Prasanth Alexander, is both a murder mystery and an absurdist comedy, with a touch of domestic abuse and the sight of Darshana Rajendran with streaks of grey. If Krishand’s new film had been an Agatha Christie or Perry Mason mystery, it might be called “The Case of […]
Posted in: Cinema: Malayalam, OTT / TV / Online
Interview: Nani (Dasara)
March 22, 2023
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Posted in: Cinema: Hindi, Cinema: Kannada, Cinema: Malayalam, Cinema: Tamil, Cinema: Telugu, Interview
From the Web (FTW) #5: How OP Nayyar was one of the original disruptors of Hindi film music
March 22, 2023
From Scroll: ‘Almost all Hindi film songs have beat patterns which are straight and regular. But OP Nayyar had other ideas.’ Rhythm king The poor sarangi! Hindi film music had accorded it a rather limiting role – either in the kothas or as mournful accompaniment to melancholic songs. No music director had violated the rule. […]
Posted in: From the Web, Music: Hindi Cinema
Readers Write In #562: VAALVI (Termite/s) – Marathi
March 22, 2023
By An Jo Spoiler alerts: As soon as the first scene is played out on the screen in ‘Vaalvi‘, it immediately takes you back to the MASTER’S, Sir Alfred’s ‘DIAL M FOR MURDER.’ And then of course, our own Kundan’s master-piece, JAANE BHI DO YAARO, starring, THE, Satish Shah. There’s a ‘practice’, a rehearsal going […]
Posted in: Cinema: Marathi, Readers Write In
Interview: Gautham Karthik (Pathu Thala)
March 21, 2023
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Posted in: Cinema: Tamil, Interview
Interview: Daniel Caltagirone (Thangalaan)
March 17, 2023
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‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 11: Kamal Haasan’s arc in ‘Thevar Magan’
March 17, 2023
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Posted in: Cinema: Tamil, Spotify: Cinema with BR
Interview: Jim Sarbh, Ishwak Singh, Regina Cassandra, Arjun Radhakrishnan (Rocket Boys 2)
March 15, 2023
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Interview: T Suriavelan (Singapore-based Tamil YouTube hit, Naam)
March 15, 2023
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From the Web (FTW) #4: The wives who discovered they were gay
March 12, 2023
From today’s Hindu Sunday Magazine: These women left socially secure marriages with men to find love, respect, and authenticity away from the rigid family structure. “Why is it that I can’t be someone at 20, someone else at 30, and someone quite different at 40? Sexuality is exploration.” The year I turned 40, I decided […]
Interview: Santhosh Narayanan (Malaysia concert, future films)
March 12, 2023
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Readers Write In #561: Letters to my Alter Ego
March 11, 2023
By Jeeva P Dear Arulmozhivarman, We have always been like this. We both have been called the greatest pessimists by both people who knew us pretty well and those who haven’t. It sometimes used to sting me like an insult and sometimes used to elate me like a compliment. Both of us were people who […]
Posted in: Personal, Readers Write In
Rajeev Ravi’s ‘Thuramukham’ (Nivin Pauly, Arjun Ashokan) is a strong, unsparing 360-degree view of a workers’ struggle
March 10, 2023
Spoilers ahead… In ‘Kammatipaadam’, Rajeev Ravi took an issue and wove a “story” around it. Now, in ‘Kuttavum Shikshayum’ and ‘Thuramukham’, the issues *are* the story. He’s weaving tapestries of a particular place, a particular time. Stylistically speaking, Rajeev Ravi’s Thuramukham can be seen as a companion piece to his earlier film, Kuttavum Shikshayum. The […]
Posted in: Cinema: Malayalam
‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 10: Oscar talk (on campaigning and ‘Naatu Naatu’ and what it takes to make it)
March 10, 2023
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Posted in: Cinema: Tamil, Spotify: Cinema with BR
Readers Write In #560: Lost and Found
March 9, 2023
By S Vidyasagar There are certain moments in life when you loose yourself to emotions like anger, lust, etc., become something else for a while, and return to your true self when you regain your composure. You would look back in wonderment at what had taken you over, and how silly and foolish you had […]
Posted in: Cinema: Malayalam, Readers Write In
From the Web (FTW) #2: Sivaji Ganesan, interviewed in the 1980s
March 9, 2023
One of my new year resolutions has been to stay away from the deadly trio of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram — with the exception of posting my work/links, and maybe re-tweeting or liking something that catches the eye while I am in there. I have been fairly disciplined about this, and have found more time […]
Baradwaj Rangan 
March 25, 2023
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