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• Interview: Kangana Ranaut (Dhaakad)
• 10 Questions: Parvathy
• Interview: Parvathy (Puzhu)
• Readers Write In #463: The Devil Wears…Propaganda?
• Raj Singh Chaudhary’s ‘Thar’, on Netflix, is a neo-Western that sets up an interesting premise and does very little with it
• Arun Matheswaran’s ‘Saani Kaayidham’, on Amazon Prime, is a gory revenge drama with impeccable craft, but the writing needed much more meat
• 10 Questions: Vignesh Shivan
• Readers Write In #462: Gangubai Kathiawadi – Impotent Pomposity
• Readers Write In #461: Kaathu Vaakula… A tale of two many backstories
• Dijo Jose Antony’s ‘Jana Gana Mana’ is a well-performed drama (Prithviraj Sukumaran, Suraj Venjaramoodu) about the slipperiness of truth
• Post Truth and Pseudorealism
• Ahmed Khan’s ‘Heropanti 2’ has some good stunts but everything else is bad
• Ajay Devgn’s ‘Runway 34’ transforms a tense and horrifying real-life event into a flat drama
• Lights, Camera, Analysis: Vignesh Shivan (Kaathu Vaakula Rendu Kadhal)
• Despite good performances and some good laughs, Vignesh Shivan’s ‘Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal’ doesn’t come together satisfyingly
• 10 Questions: Koratala Siva
• Interview: Koratala Siva (Acharya)
• Readers Write In #460: The Isolating Soundscape of Better Call Saul.
• Gowtam Tinnanuri’s ‘Jersey’, with Shahid Kapoor and Mrunal Thakur, is generic and simplistic, but an easy and pleasant watch
• In ‘Antakshari’, a fairly engaging thriller directed by Vipin Das, Saiju Kurup plays a music-loving cop who gets involved in a mystery
• #QnA: KGF: Chapter 2
• #QnA: Beast
• Readers Write In #459: Self reflective movies and their charm
• Readers Write In #458: Telugu cinema is having a dream run, and Indian cinema needs it now more than ever
• In ‘KGF: Chapter Two’, director Prashant Neel and his star Yash deliver a superior, epic sequel
• In ‘Beast’, Nelson and Vijay join hands to deliver an underwhelming hostage drama
• 10 Questions: Prashanth Neel
• 10 Questions: Yash
• Readers Write In #457: Grammar, Vocabulary, Kaadhal, and all that
• The okayish ‘Taanakkaran’, by Tamizh, has Vikram Prabhu as a heroic police trainee taking on the System.
• In Tushar Jalota’s inconsistently written ‘Dasvi’, Abhishek Bachchan is a politician who wants to study and Nimrat Kaur shines as his cartoonish wife
• Interview: Prashanth Neel (KGF / KGF: 2)
• Interview: Yash (KGF / KGF: 2)
• 10 Questions: Vidya Balan
• Interview: Vidya Balan
• Readers Write In #456: On ‘The Power of the Dog’
• Shishir Jha’s ‘Tortoise Under the Earth’ is a moving document of the Santhal-speakers in Jharkhand, whose lives are being displaced by uranium-mining companies.
• Readers Write In #455: Kashmir Files Part II
• Raga 2 Rock
• Nipun Dharmadhikari’s ‘Mee Vasantrao’ is a superb biopic that captures the essence of the great classical singer Vasantrao Deshpande
• Mathi Maran’s underwhelming ‘Selfie’, has GV Prakash as a college student who stumbles on a “seats for money” racket. 
• 10 Questions: Karan Johar
• Interview: Karan Johar
• Readers Write In #454: Thoughts on ‘The Batman’ and how it mirrors my life
• Suresh Triveni’s ‘Jalsa’ has Vidya Balan and Shefali Shah in a solid thriller that’s more existential than explosive
• 10 Questions: NTR Jr. and Ram Charan (‘RRR’)
• Readers Write In #453: I whole-heartedly welcome the success of ‘The Kashmir files’, and let me tell you why.
• SS Rajamouli’s ‘RRR’ is an entertaining masala epic with great star turns, but deeper emotions might have made this even better 
• 10 Questions: SS Rajamouli (‘RRR’)
• Hello, Galatta Plus! (Promo 2)