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FC Recco – ‘Directors’ Diaries: The Road to Their First Film’

July 18, 2019

A weekly series where I recommend a film-based book, a foreign film or an Indian movie. For more, subscribe to FILM COMPANION SOUTH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Ym39kMJD0 Copyright ©2019 Film Companion.

Interview: Amala Paul / Rathna Kumar (Aadai)

July 16, 2019

Interview: Pa Ranjith (on his cinema)

July 10, 2019

#AskBR – Happy birthday, K Balachander

July 9, 2019

In which I answer a few questions on an older film… or a new one… or talk about actors and directors… or take on a few YouTube comments… For more, subscribe to FILM COMPANION SOUTH: http://bit.ly/2xoNult Copyright ©2019 Film Companion.

Readers Write In #85: The Dancer Upstairs, and the Actor Beneath….

July 7, 2019

(by An Jo) An engineering back-ground warrants me to put in certain key pre-conditions: I understand, read, and write [write to varying degrees] only 4 languages: Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, English, Urdu. I can speak some broken Punjabi and understand it. 2. I do not understand languages of Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam. [In other words, apart […]

“Raatchasi”… Jyotika lectures her way through a patience-testing drama on education

July 5, 2019

Read the full review on Film Companion, here: https://www.filmcompanion.in/raatchasi-movie-review-jyothika-baradwaj-rangan-education/ Spoilers ahead… The opening of Raatchasi, written and directed by Sy. Gowthamraj, shows the students of a government school being herded away from school, in a lorry, by goons affiliated to a political party. When a male teacher runs out and questions them, he’s slapped. The […]

FC Recco – ‘Reel World: On location in Kollywood’

July 4, 2019

Interview: Pa Ranjith (on his life)

July 2, 2019

“Jiivi”… This existential thriller may not be good cinema, but it’s a decent watch

July 1, 2019

Read the full review on Film Companion, here: https://www.filmcompanion.in/jiivi-movie-review-vetri-vj-gopinath-baradwaj-rangan Spoilers ahead… VJ Gopinath’s Jiivi opens with a scene of Saravanan (Vettri, the leading man of 8 Thottakkal) staring at a plastic water bottle being tossed on the road from a car window. The bottle gets smashed by oncoming traffic. “That’s my life,” he feels. He’s […]

Readers Write In #83: Would Puthiya Paathai really be a minefield today?

June 30, 2019

(by Madan Mohan, recreational tennis hack in the early morning, chartered accountant by day and wannabe writer by night.) In his interview with our BR saar, filmmaker and actor R Parthiepan mentioned that he did not think a Puthiya Paathai could be made today and it was owing to the innocence/ignorance of the times that […]

My Favourite So Bad It’s Good Film: The Kamal Haasan-starrer, ‘Kadhal Parisu’

June 29, 2019

Read the full article on Film Companion, here: https://www.filmcompanion.in/my-favourite-so-bad-its-good-film-the-kamal-haasan-starrer-kadhal-parisu/ The director puts Radha in a short skirt. He puts Kamal in a toga, which means the hero ends up showing more leg than the heroine. When asked to name a film that’s so bad it’s good, a ‘Gaptun’ Vijayakanth movie would seem the obvious choice. […]

“Sindhubaadh”… Vijay Sethupathi goes into action mode with disappointing results

June 27, 2019

Spoilers ahead… Read the full review on Film Companion, here: https://www.filmcompanion.in/sindhubaadh-movie-review-vijay-sethupathi-anjali-vivek-prasanna-arun-kumar-baradwaj-rangan/ After Pannaiyaarum Padminiyum and Sethupathi, director SU Arun Kumar and star Vijay Sethupathi team up again in Sindhubaadh, an action-drama about a man who has dangerous adventures in distant lands. Yes, like that Sindbad — but with the moral-outrage angle so beloved to Tamil […]

“House Owner”… A moving journey through the lives of a couple, over two time periods

June 26, 2019

Spoilers ahead… Read the full review on Film Companion, here: https://www.filmcompanion.in/house-owner-movie-review-lakshmy-ramakrishnan-baradwaj-rangan In House Owner, writer-director Lakshmy Ramakrishnan continues her quest to tell strong (and strongly written) stories about women. In Aarohanam, it was a lower-middle-class vegetable vendor with bipolar disorder. In Ammani, it was a retirement-age worker at a government hospital. Now, we have middle-aged […]

Interview: R Parthiepan

June 25, 2019

#AskBR – Arjun Reddy / Kabir Singh

June 25, 2019

On the sets of ‘House Owner’

June 24, 2019

“The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir”… A sincere Dhanush is let down by this bland fantasy-drama

June 21, 2019

Spoilers ahead… Read the full review on Film Companion, here: https://www.filmcompanion.in/the-extraordinary-journey-of-the-fakir-movie-review-dhanush-baradwaj-rangan How many Indian stars have gone on to play the lead in a non-Indian film? This isn’t about Indian-origin actors like Dev Patel. This isn’t about actors like Shabana Azmi, primarily identified with art-house cinema and invited to play character roles in dramas like […]

Interview: SU Arun Kumar (director of Pannaiyarum Padminiyum, Sethupathi, Sindhubaadh)

June 20, 2019

#AskBR – Game Over (with the producer and director)

June 19, 2019

‘Nerkonda Paarvai’ , starring Ajith Kumar, may be the most important movie of the year