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Interview: Ashwin Saravanan (Connect)
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Interview: ‘Travels’ Ramji Natarajan (Location finder for RRR, Dilwale, Endhiran, etc.)
December 14, 2022
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The Galatta Plus Pan-India Round Table 2022
December 8, 2022
Readers Write In #520: PS1 review- Too many flaws to cover up
October 25, 2022
By S Vijaysagar I waited for the buzz to settle down on PS1 and chose the evening show on Diwali eve to catch up on the movie. Hope people would still be interested in reading about the movie. PS1 fell flat on many counts for me. I think the prime account was in lack of […]
Anudeep KV’s ‘Prince’, with Sivakarthikeyan and Maria Ryaboshapka, applies the ‘Jathi Ratnalu’ formula to a love story and falls flat
October 20, 2022
Spoilers ahead… The star is in his zone, but the film is a chain link of missed opportunity after missed opportunity. Even the slapstick fight is not as slapsticky as it should be. Anudeep KV’s USP is silliness. In Jathi Ratnalu, he roped in three actors: Naveen Polishetty, Priyadarshi and Rahul Ramakrishna. And he used […]
Charukesh Sekar’s ‘Ammu’, on Amazon Prime Video, with Aishwarya Lekshmi and Naveen Chandra, is a partly effective domestic-abuse drama
October 19, 2022
Spoilers ahead… The first half takes a long time to underline Ammu’s situation – the scenes, though effective, are fairly predictable. The real subversion occurs in the second half. Charukesh Sekar’s Ammu opens with an arranged marriage scenario. Ammu (Aishwarya Lekshmi) is brought in front of Ravi (Naveen Chandra) and his family. There are no […]
Our mainstream auteurs vs. mainstream cinema’s must-haves
October 17, 2022
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Random thoughts on ‘Ponniyin Selvan – 1’ and its ‘aftermath’
October 12, 2022
I saw the film this week, a second time. It was even more impressive. Time and again, screenplay advice has told us that the narrative should be told from a single POV, and that the person whose POV we follow is the “protagonist”. As much as Vandhiyathevan is the “protagonist” of this film, so many […]
Readers Write In #506: Ponniyin Selvan – A Masterpiece and a master’s peace…
October 11, 2022
By Raghu Narayanan Why am I writing this review? The act of penning your thoughts on paper is transformational in nature. The act transforms what is intangible into something that is tangible. It might seem quite a simple thing to do, but as we sit down to do it, it seems as if there is […]
#QnA: Ponniyin Selvan – Part 1
October 5, 2022
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Mani Ratnam and his fantastic team beautifully capture the essence of Kalki’s characters in ‘Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1’, which infuses a period story with a sense of lived-in reality… (continued from earlier post)
October 1, 2022
Spoilers ahead… All the actors are fantastic in this character-driven first part that perfectly sets the stage for the second installment, which can now hit the ground running. You can read the review here: https://www.galatta.com/tamil/movie/review/ponniyin-selvan-1/ And you can watch the video review here: Copyright ©2022 GALATTA.
Mani Ratnam and his fantastic team beautifully capture the essence of Kalki’s characters in ‘Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1’, which infuses a period story with a sense of lived-in reality
September 30, 2022
Spoilers ahead… All the actors are fantastic in this character-driven first part that perfectly sets the stage for the second installment, which can now hit the ground running. Book adaptations are strange beasts, and in my opinion, the only way to truly enjoy a movie based on a book is to… forget the book. Now, […]
Interview: Mani Ratnam (Ponniyin Selvan)
September 29, 2022
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Interview: Dulquer Salmaan (Chup)
September 23, 2022
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Shree Karthick’s ‘Oke Oka Jeevitham’ / ‘Kanam’, with Sharwanand and Amala Akkineni, is a beautifully written time-travel drama
September 9, 2022
Spoilers ahead… The focus is on emotions, rather than on twists or frantic time machine adventures. But with this premise, I could have used a few more emotional highs. Shree Karthick’s time-travel drama is interestingly titled. In Telugu, it is called Oke Oka Jeevitham, which can be extrapolated to mean we have only one life, […]
Ayan Mukerji’s ‘Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva’, with Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt, has more spectacle than soul
September 8, 2022
Spoilers ahead… You can see all the money they spent up there, on the big screen. But the film never rises above the “watchable” or “hmm… not bad” category. All fantasy movies are derivative, and Ayan Mukerji’s Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva is no different. From the Star Wars universe, we get a Luke Skywalker-Darth […]
Interview: Amala Akkineni (Kanam, Oke Oka Jeevitham)
September 5, 2022
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Readers Write In #482: To Sita Ramam, With Love
September 3, 2022
By Aman Basha Celebrating the most wonderful and surprising film of 2022 “Inthandam daari mallinda, bhumipaike cherukunnada”. Goes the opening salvo of Sita Ramam’s first romantic song, wondering if such a beauty had lost its way, for how else could it be that she’s here today. That sentiment must have been universal with audiences watching […]
Puri Jagannadh’s ‘Liger’, starring Vijay Deverakonda and Ananya Panday, feels like a cruel joke on those who think “south films are better”
August 25, 2022
Spoilers ahead… The film is like a bad 80s-90s Tamil or Telugu movie where a song or a comedy track would be randomly inserted, without any care about the overall emotional arc. There’s a terrific idea for a scene in the first half of Puri Jagannadh’s Liger. That title refers to the Vijay Deverakonda character, […]
Interview: Vijay Deverakonda (Liger)
August 21, 2022
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Baradwaj Rangan 
December 19, 2022
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