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Interview: H Vinoth (Thunivu)
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‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 1: On AR Rahman, on his birthday
January 6, 2023
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Readers Write In #537: My journey with ‘Ponniyin Selvan’, from watcher to reader to writer
January 5, 2023
By Krishnaraj Sambath As a Watcher FDFS (my first ever!) on 30-Sep-2022, 6PM show in Houston, TX. There were 5 of us in total in the theatre, including my wife and 4-yr old son. (Not the ear-deafening paper-showering cinematic FDFS experience I was hoping for) As a Reader Why did I pick up this book? […]
Mega Critics Roundtable 2022, by Nona Prince
December 30, 2022
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Readers Write In #535: Love today…Wait, what love?
December 30, 2022
By Madhumithaa S Respectably enough, Pradeep Ranganathan’s Love Today begins with a disclaimer that no animals or birds were harmed in the making of the movie. Errrrrr…did he forget something? What about harming humans with this movie? I am so furious that I’m not sure about where to start, and how to go about. But, […]
The Galatta Plus Tamil Cinema Round Table 2022
December 26, 2022
Interview: Sunny Leone (Oh My Ghost)
December 23, 2022
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The emotional stakes are low, but as a scare-dispensing machine, Ashwin Saravanan’s ‘Connect’ does a pretty decent job
December 22, 2022
Spoilers ahead… But the scares apart, there is no emotional depth. And the film does not show anything we have not seen in earlier stories about exorcism. There are times Ashwin Saravanan’s Connect appears to be a COVID-era homage to The Exorcist. Here, too, we have a single mother, played by a gritty Nayanthara, alternating […]
Interview: Ashwin Saravanan (Connect)
December 19, 2022
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Interview: ‘Travels’ Ramji Natarajan (Location finder for RRR, Dilwale, Endhiran, etc.)
December 14, 2022
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Deepak’s well-researched ‘Witness’, on SonyLIV, is a story about manual scavenging that’s more earnest than emotional
December 9, 2022
Spoilers ahead… Rohini and Shraddha Srinath star in a social drama where so much more could have been done with the narrative and the characterisation. The crux of Deepak’s Witness is this: a teenager can be a terrific swimmer, a lifeguard at a pool. And yet, because of his caste/community, this talent of his is […]
The Galatta Plus Pan-India Round Table 2022
December 8, 2022
Readers Write In #529: Thoughts on GASLIGHT, RANGOON RADHA
December 8, 2022
By Vijaysree Venkataraman Gaslighting is the word of the year in 2022. According to the Merriam-Wester dictionary,the verb refers to the psychological manipulation of a person. Typically, the manipulation happens over a period of time and causes the victim to question the validity of their own perception of reality or memories.It often leads to “confusion, […]
Readers Write In #528: Thoughts on Love Today (Film)
December 8, 2022
By Don Corleone The film Love Today talks about the superficiality of romantic relationships among youngsters of the day. Point to be noted is that it entirely stays away from any sort of comparison with earlier generations’ relationships, which I feel is a positive. Another positive in the film I feel is its entertainment quotient: it scores […]
Interview: Guru Somasundaram (Winner of ‘Best Actor’, India, at the Asian Academy Creative Awards)
December 3, 2022
For more, subscribe to GALATTA PLUS: https://tinyurl.com/ysbkyrht The annual Asian Academy Creative Awards are presented every December as part of the Singapore Media Festival. They recognise excellence in the film and television industry across 16 nations in the Asia-Pacific region. Guru Somasundaram has won ‘Best Actor in a Leading Role’ for Minnal Murali, and he […]
Interview: Suresh Krishna (‘Baba’ re-release)
November 30, 2022
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Interview: SJ Suryah, Pushkar-Gayathri, Andrew Louis (Vadhandhi)
November 28, 2022
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R Kaiser Anand’s ‘Anel Meley Pani Thuli’, starring Andrea Jeremiah as a rape survivor, on SonyLIV, is a strong story that needed stronger writing
November 18, 2022
Spoilers ahead… There are many good points – both narratively, and with regard to character – in this film produced by Vetri Maaran. But everything feels like a “list of things to be included” rather than something organically woven through a script. Andrea Jermiah plays a sports-store manager named Mathi in R Kaiser Anand’s Anel […]
Interview: Vetri Maaran, Andrea Jeremiah, Kaiser Anand (Anel Meley Pani Thuli)
November 16, 2022
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Interview: Udhayanidhi Stalin (Kalaga Thalaivan)
November 11, 2022
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Baradwaj Rangan 
January 9, 2023
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