This article is the third in a series of random reminiscences of the recent decades of Kollywood. The first and second are here. By Srinivasan Sundar Chennai 600028 (2007, Venkat Prabhu) It is surprising that a cricket-crazy city had not rolled out any memorable film based on the game until Chennai 600028 stormed the arena. The more you think of […]
May 25, 2023
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May 21, 2023
Why do Indian movies have songs? Well that’s a question that is being increasingly asked now, but it was not the case earlier. Given that Indian movies had their base in the various forms of “stage” or “theatre” traditions, when sound came into movies, songs became integral. For a very long time, songs played a […]
May 20, 2023
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May 19, 2023
Spoilers ahead… Scene after scene is set up to portray Vijay Antony as a saviour named Anti Bikili. He even gets a fight like a mass-hero. Vijay Antony has co-written, edited, directed, and composed the music for Pichaikkaran 2 – and he appears in a double role in this spiritual sequel to his 2016 hit. […]
May 18, 2023
Spoilers ahead… Every film has something (or things) going for it, but the standouts are the episodes by Krishnakumar Ramakumar, Akshay Sundher, and Thiagarajan Kumararaja. Modern Love Chennai is easily the best thing to come out of the Tamil OTT space. This is not to say that I liked every single short in this six-episode […]
May 16, 2023
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May 15, 2023
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May 13, 2023
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May 12, 2023
Spoilers ahead… This is why the film never realises its potential: the central relationship starts off well enough, but it becomes very repetitive – and in the second half, it becomes extremely contrived. Good Night, written and directed by Vinayak Chandrasekaran, has been sold as a comedy about a man with a snoring problem – […]
May 12, 2023
Spoilers ahead… The director focuses on his heroine’s face, her expressive eyes – and Aishwarya gives us everything from timidity to disgust to fear to controlled rage. With Oru Naal Koothu, Nelson Venkatesan showed us he could do drama. The film was a sobering look at modern-day marriage. His next film, the very entertaining Monster, […]
May 10, 2023
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May 4, 2023
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April 30, 2023
By Raghu Narayanan Well, it worked for me…big time! Compared movie to movie, I will say PS-2 is better than PS-1. But then, saying that will be somewhat merciless because the unravelling of the plot and the untying of knots in PS-2 was always going to make it more interesting and more conclusive than PS-1. […]
April 29, 2023
By Gnanaozhi The movie simply didn’t work for me. It has a severe GoT season 5-8 problem. Seasons 1-4 were sublime, it adapted the books faithfully but the Showrunners added some minor twists of their own (like that scene where Tywin is being served by Arya who is pretending to be a lowly servant). However […]
April 28, 2023
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April 28, 2023
Spoilers ahead… Mani Ratnam amps down the aural drama and amps up the visual drama. Even by this director’s legendary standards, the staging is something else. Mani Ratnam has credited SS Rajamouli several times as the reason he was able to finally make Ponniyin Selvan: the mega-success of the Bahubali films made it possible for […]
April 25, 2023
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April 25, 2023
This is a take-off on Madan’s comment in the MR-ARR interview thread, where he talked about my podcast where he says I said something like “this weird strongly mainstream impulse Mani has for one who wants to be trying new things all the time. “ I want to define what I meant by the word […]
April 23, 2023
By Srinivasan Sundar Those five were the ones that were easily and quickly visible in my mirror. Most memorable films; Not necessarily the greats of the decade. I peeped again, this time to catch glimpses of my film memories of the nineties. It is like trying to open up a case that’s been filled with […]
June 5, 2023
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