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Lijo Jose Pellissery’s Jallikattu is out of the Oscar race, but it was always a long shot
https://www.filmcompanion.in/opinion/hollywood-opinion/oscars-2021-nominations-jallikattu-india-entry-lijo-jose-pellisserys-jallikattu-is-out-of-the-oscar-race-but-it-was-always-a-long-shot-malayalam-movies/ The only way to hope for a shot at the Academy Awards is to make India matter in the eyes of Uncle Oscar as a “country that makes good movies”. As always, there was this dim hope that we’d make it to the shortlist, at least. After all, we’d picked a really deserving film, […]
Readers Write In #315: Mirror Cracked From Side to Side
December 19, 2020
(by Madan Mohan) No, this is not about the famous Agatha Christie novel. This is about the imminent shutdown of Mumbai Mirror, a tabloid-sized daily that used to accompany Times of India. Starting tomorrow, we are told, Mumbai Mirror will be a Sunday weekly affair. Notice I say tabloid-sized. If you aren’t from Mumbai (or […]
A journalist’s view of the Cannes Film Festival and its touching commitment to cinema
May 7, 2018
Read the full article on Firstpost, here: https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/cannes-film-festival-2018-a-journalists-view-of-the-iconic-event-and-its-touching-commitment-to-cinema-4458703.html The Cannes Film Festival is a curious beast. There’s no doubt it’s more snobbish than, say, the Berlinale – but this aloofness is part of the attraction. The old Groucho Marx quip (later appropriated by Woody Allen in Annie Hall) comes to mind: “I don’t care to […]
‘I’m more rooted than anybody else you might have had in mind’
April 12, 2018
Read the full article on Film Companion, here: http://www.filmcompanion.in/tamil-cinema-strike-cooum-river-video-gautham-menon/ A short history of Tamil YouTube content leading up to the Cooum video, created by Behindwoods. And a chat with the narrator, Gautham Vasudev Menon. The Tamil film industry has been on strike, and there have been no new releases for over a month – and […]
Blog vs Bharatvarsh
August 3, 2017
sai16vicky mentioned something in the Dunkirk thread, and it spawned a few responses. Posting them here, as a new thread, in case you feel like chiming in. sai16vicky August 2, 2017 BR, I have always respected your views on Free Speech (though my stand is different). But with you banning Anuj, I have a question […]
Vox un-populi?
November 12, 2016
Musings on the media, post the bomb that just blew up in the United States. The recent events around Trump already seemed to have played out at movie theatres around Tamil Nadu, around the time the film Remo was released. The word around the rom-com, starring the young (and young-skewing) actor Sivakarthikeyan, was toxic. The […]
Headline news
July 27, 2015
What is a newspaper’s responsibility? To tell a story? Or draw eyeballs to that story in the first place? I’m not one for pop-motivational quotes on calendars and posters, but I love reading stories about people who inspire through their lives. Many of them, unsurprisingly, are sportspeople. For most of us, that level of control […]
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