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Lights, Camera, Analysis: Prashanth Neel (KGF 1 & 2)
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Interview: RJ Balaji (Veetla Vishesham)
June 15, 2022
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Readers Write In #467: The need for superheroes in a modern society
June 10, 2022
By Prakash Alagarsamy I recently watched the movie “Vikram”. The movie was good. Definitely could have been better. I loved talking about it with my family members about it. Don’t know the last time a mass movie did that. So definitely a win in that aspect. But u digress. This post is about something that […]
Lights, Camera, Analysis: Lokesh Kanagaraj (Vikram)
June 10, 2022
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Lokesh Kanagaraj and Kamal Haasan make history by giving Tamil cinema its first real genre-specific “action movie”
June 3, 2022
Spoilers ahead… You get all the emotion you need from Kamal’s eyes or from Fahadh Faasil’s sly body language. Fahadh manages the considerable feat of almost stealing a Kamal movie. If Martin Scorsese and Timothy Dalton’s James Bond had a baby, it would be something like Vikram. This is a drug-filled gangster movie, filled wall-to-wall […]
10 Questions: Lokesh Kanagaraj
June 2, 2022
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Interview: Rakshit Shetty (777 Charlie)
May 30, 2022
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The Galatta Plus conclave, Session 1: ’35 years of NAYAKAN’
May 27, 2022
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Interview: Lokesh Kanagaraj (Vikram)
May 23, 2022
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Arun Matheswaran’s ‘Saani Kaayidham’, on Amazon Prime, is a gory revenge drama with impeccable craft, but the writing needed much more meat
May 6, 2022
Spoilers ahead… The main attraction of the film is the cast. Stripped of makeup, Keerthy Suresh dives into a difficult role. And Selvaraghavan is wonderful. When I saw Arun Matheswaran’s first film, Rocky, I said that the narrative was generic, but the film signalled the arrival of a genuine cinematic voice. I said that the […]
10 Questions: Vignesh Shivan
May 4, 2022
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Readers Write In #461: Kaathu Vaakula… A tale of two many backstories
May 3, 2022
By Harish Prakash Let’s start where KRK begins. Rambo’s many uncles and an aunt remain unmarried because of a supposed curse running in the family that marriages will lead to mishaps. This happens as soon as Rambo is born. His father falls off a water tower and dies and his mother falls ill and gets […]
Lights, Camera, Analysis: Vignesh Shivan (Kaathu Vaakula Rendu Kadhal)
April 30, 2022
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Despite good performances and some good laughs, Vignesh Shivan’s ‘Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal’ doesn’t come together satisfyingly
April 28, 2022
Spoilers ahead… Tonally, the film is all over the place. I never believed that either Nayanthara or Samantha was truly in love with Vijay Sethupathi – so the stakes are non-existent. Looking at the trailer, it appeared that Vijay Sethupathi was the luckiest man on the planet, getting to romance two gorgeous women, Nayanthara and […]
#QnA: Beast
April 20, 2022
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Readers Write In #459: Self reflective movies and their charm
April 19, 2022
By Kartik Iyer Richard Linklater was working on Apollo 10 ½ : A Space Age Childhood since about 2018-19. I remember the earliest story broke when Linklater’s production company, Detour, published a press release requesting Austin residents to share pictures of the city during 1969. Over the course of the next couple of years, pictures from the […]
Readers Write In #458: Telugu cinema is having a dream run, and Indian cinema needs it now more than ever
April 14, 2022
By Alex John Telugu cinema is having a dream run, and Indian cinema needs it now more than ever. Okay, no claims of prophecy here, as I wrote this article in the “Reader’s write in” (link (1) below) about how Telugu cinema is going to spread its wings only after the roaring success of ‘Bahubali: […]
In ‘KGF: Chapter Two’, director Prashant Neel and his star Yash deliver a superior, epic sequel
April 14, 2022
Spoilers ahead… The film works at two levels. One, we get a huge action spectacle with inventive set pieces. And two, we get a style-filled masala movie, filled with whistle-worthy moments. Prashanth Neel returns as writer-director in KGF: Chapter 2, starring Yash as the gold-hearted gangster named Rocky. But first, a recap. The first chapter […]
In ‘Beast’, Nelson and Vijay join hands to deliver an underwhelming hostage drama
April 13, 2022
Spoilers ahead… The opening stretch is solid, but the rest of the film is flat and generic. Much of the cast – Yogi Babu, Redin, Pooja Hegde, poor Shine Tom Chacko – is underutilised. The first fifteen-odd minutes of Nelson’s Beast show promise. The tone of Vijay’s introduction scene is pleasantly low-key. (He plays a […]
Readers Write In #457: Grammar, Vocabulary, Kaadhal, and all that
April 10, 2022
By Kailasham R In a post on Prashant-Simran movies from the 90s that went live shortly after Diwali 2021, I made a comment that “on-screen romance in Tamil cinema would see a tectonic shift in grammar and vocabulary” in the decade or so that followed. A reader requested that I elaborate on this point. While […]
Baradwaj Rangan 
June 21, 2022
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