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National Awards 2022
hari prasad wrote: This year’s National Awards are kinda disappointing for Tamil Cinema as only Kadaisi Vivasaayi and Iravin Nizhal bag awards for best Tamil movie , a special mention award and for best female playback singer respectively. Madhavan’s Rocketry won the Best Feature Film award. RRR has won the best popular film providing wholesome […]
A review of Ivan Ayr’s sturdy, lyrical character study, Meel Patthar (Milestone), which premiered at the Venice Film Festival
September 4, 2020
This moving tale of a trucker paints a portrait of an ecosystem where everything and everyone appears to be a metaphor for disuse, neglect, ageing. Spoilers ahead… Based on his two deeply empathetic features so far — both of which debuted in the Orrizonti (Horizons) section of the Venice Film Festival — Ivan Ayr likes […]
Baradwaj Rangan, let’s talk about bias!
June 14, 2018
Read the full article on Film Companion, here: https://www.filmcompanion.in/baradwaj-rangan-kaala-review-critics-mani-ratnam-twitter-conversations-southern-cinema-bias/ Because it’s impossible to have a proper conversation on Twitter, I imagine a chat with critics of my ‘Kaala’ review and argue why form is important and why ‘Mani Ratnam’ isn’t a bad word. There may be spoilers ahead if you haven’t seen ‘Kaala’. So you’re […]
The contentious nature of the National Awards
April 14, 2018
Read the full article on Film Companion, here: http://www.filmcompanion.in/the-contentious-nature-of-the-national-awards-baahubali-village-rockstars-sridevi/ Musings on the country’s most prestigious film awards – and this is not about whether X deserved to win over Y. Another year. Another set of arguments over the National Awards. For instance: Did Sridevi deserve Best Actress? Indeed, under normal circumstances, would her performance in […]
Tamil cinema, English thoughts
January 25, 2018
Read the full article on Film Companion, here: http://www.filmcompanion.in/southern-lights-tamil-cinema-english-thoughts/ In which I make a case that there needs to be more writing about non-Hindi cinema in English, if this cinema is to break through ghettos. I interviewed two authors at this year’s edition of the The Hindu’s Lit for Life. One of them was a […]
“Qissa”… A chilling tale about what it’s like to be in a limbo
February 25, 2015
Spoilers ahead… The Partition saga Qissa (in Punjabi) is ostensibly about a woman who’s brought up as a man, but the film isn’t about gender identity at all. At least, not in the way we talk about it in these LGBTQ times. The director Anup Singh is after something looser, vaguer. His entire film seems […]
Lights, Camera, Conversation… “A separation of audiences?”
October 25, 2013
Movies for everyone versus movies for a few. Notes from the recently concluded Mumbai International Film Festival. Why do people laugh in the movies? The obvious answer is that they find something funny, and mainstream cinema – even given that rarely do two people respond to a movie the same way – sometimes manages to […]
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