Recent Posts

• Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s ‘Salaam Cinema’ is not just an ode to the medium but also a reflection of it
• FC Recco – ‘Directors’ Diaries: The Road to Their First Film’
• “Super 30.”… A smashingly effective story of a determined educator and his underprivileged wards
• Interview: Amala Paul / Rathna Kumar (Aadai)
• Readers Write In #87: Why nepotism might be good for Indian cinema… and Kangana Ranaut (?)
• Forty years on, Tarkovsky’s ‘Stalker’ remains a great example of movie-poetry, easier to experience than explain
• FC Flashback: Sankarabharanam
• Readers Write In #86: Fedal – An immortal rivalry
• Interview: Pa Ranjith (on his cinema)
• Books that changed you
• #AskBR – Happy birthday, K Balachander
• Readers Write In #85: The Dancer Upstairs, and the Actor Beneath….
• Readers Write In #84: My first ever Balamuralikrishna concert
• “Raatchasi”… Jyotika lectures her way through a patience-testing drama on education
• Luchino Visconti’s ‘Senso’, which heralded the slow opening-up of Italian neorealism
• FC Recco – ‘Reel World: On location in Kollywood’
• Interview: Pa Ranjith (on his life)
• “Article 15.”… A well-intentioned, well-crafted drama about caste that needed to dig deeper
• “Luca”… An artfully designed movie that’s middling but not without merit
• “Jiivi”… This existential thriller may not be good cinema, but it’s a decent watch
• Readers Write In #83: Would Puthiya Paathai really be a minefield today?
• Readers Write In #82: Fleabag, The One Your Mother Warned You About
• My Favourite So Bad It’s Good Film: The Kamal Haasan-starrer, ‘Kadhal Parisu’
• Readers Write In #81: A Fantastic Journey, a Fascinating New Road Ahead: #27GoldenYearsOfSRK
• Readers Write In #80: Love in the Time of Woke-ness
• Readers Write In #79: Kabir Singh and everything wrong with our film industry… and our feminists
• On Carlos Reygadas’s ‘Japón’, and unilateral vs. bilateral cinema
• “Sindhubaadh”… Vijay Sethupathi goes into action mode with disappointing results
• “House Owner”… A moving journey through the lives of a couple, over two time periods
• “Mallesham”… A biopic that works because it focuses on the man as much as his machine
• Interview: R Parthiepan
• Readers Write In #78: Kabir Singh (Arjun Reddy), a Rorschach test
• #AskBR – Arjun Reddy / Kabir Singh
• On the sets of ‘House Owner’
• “Unda”… A superbly understated Mammootty stars in a drama that’s much bigger than a “cop film”
• “The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir”… A sincere Dhanush is let down by this bland fantasy-drama
• On World Music Day, a salute to Jacques Demy, who made two of the greatest musicals outside the Hollywood system
• Interview: SU Arun Kumar (director of Pannaiyarum Padminiyum, Sethupathi, Sindhubaadh)
• #AskBR – Game Over (with the producer and director)
• ‘Nerkonda Paarvai’ , starring Ajith Kumar, may be the most important movie of the year
• Remembering Girish Karnad the director, the actor
• “Suttu Pidikka Utharavu”… A solid little thriller with a solid twist
• “Game Over”… Enjoyable, fabulously twisty, and a bona fide original
• In Pride Month, a look at ‘Kanarie’, a South African coming-of-age (and coming-out) drama
• Interview: GV Prakash Kumar
• “Virus”… A superbly crafted, and very human, medical thriller
• Recalling ‘Crazy’ Mohan’s comedy, and his Kamal Haasan collaborations
• Readers Write In #77: ‘Lucifer’ and ‘mass’ in Malayalam cinema
• Interview: Taapsee Pannu
• “Kolaigaran”… Vijay Antony and Arjun face off in a so-so murder mystery with so-so twists