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- Rishab Shetty’s ‘Kantara’ is a solid masala-myth that, despite its issues, finds new ways to tell an old story about ‘The Chosen One’
- #QnA: Ponniyin Selvan – Part 1
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- Readers Write In #497: My thoughts on Ponniyin Selvan
- Sound designer Kunal Rajan on the debate around the sound of ‘Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1’
- Lights, Camera, Analysis: Pa Ranjith (Natchathiram Nagargiradhu)
- Readers Write In #496: A book review of Ponniyin Selvan – Gnanozhi
- Readers Write In #495: Ponniyin Selvan Part 1 review
- Mani Ratnam and his fantastic team beautifully capture the essence of Kalki’s characters in ‘Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1’, which infuses a period story with a sense of lived-in reality… (continued from earlier post)
- Mani Ratnam and his fantastic team beautifully capture the essence of Kalki’s characters in ‘Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1’, which infuses a period story with a sense of lived-in reality
- Interview: Mani Ratnam (Ponniyin Selvan)
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- Interview: Dulquer Salmaan (Chup)
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- Charlie Davis’s ‘Sundari Gardens’, starring Aparna Balamurali and Neeraj Madhav, and now on SonyLIV, is a gentle, unremarkable drama
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Posted on April 26, 2022
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