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#AskBR – Jagame Thandiram
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#AskBR – Remembering SPB with singer Srinivas
June 4, 2021
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Interview: The Sad Life of Film Critics
April 30, 2021
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Interview: Govind Vasantha on ARR, Santhosh Narayanan, Anirudh, Bijibal, Sushin Shyam…
April 29, 2021
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Interview: Govind Vasantha on MSV, MS Baburaj, Johnson, Ilaiyaraaja…
April 27, 2021
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Readers Write In #348: What I wanted to ask Rahman
March 22, 2021
(by Madan Mohan) The day I signed up for the Film Companion Front Row discussion with A R Rahman, I formulated the question I wanted to ask him. When the discussion started, I was maybe the second guy to punch in my question in the chatbox. But the numbers were against me from the get […]
My interview by Venky Ramachandran – On music
February 24, 2021
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Interview: Bombay Jayashri
February 2, 2021
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Interview: Suresh Krissna recalls his journey with SPB
September 30, 2020
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Interview: YG Mahendran, Kavithalaya Krishnan, Kalpana remember SPB
September 29, 2020
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#AskBR – Remembering SPB
September 28, 2020
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Remembering SP Balasubrahmanyam through the MSV era, the Ilaiyaraaja era, and beyond
September 25, 2020
A journey through the great singer’s songs in Tamil cinema, by the two great composers who used him the most, and used him the best. How on earth do you write about SPB? How do you contain the vastness of his accomplishments, the vast pleasures he has brought us, in a couple of thousand words? […]
Interview: Govind Vasantha (Masterclass on scoring background music)
August 21, 2020
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#AskBR – AR Rahman
July 31, 2020
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Readers Write In #234: Sushant Singh Rajput and AR Rahman
July 29, 2020
(by Reane Taara) On June 14th, 2020; Sushant Singh Rajput ‘allegedly’ took his own life. This created quite a stir. To the people of the South, he was reel life Dhoni,which meant he was as loved as MSD. The time he visited Chennai with MS is proof that he was accepted by the people here. […]
Happy 90th birthday, Lata Mangeshkar!
September 28, 2019
Read the full article on Film Companion, here: https://www.filmcompanion.in/happy-90th-birthday-lata-mangeshkar/ The singer’s greatness is taken for granted (and rightly so), but is the “Lata era” still a thing? Or is it just for older listeners and nostalgists? Hema Mangeshkar. After 90 years, the name doesn’t just sound off, it sounds wrong, like calling a rainbow a […]
The contentious nature of the National Awards
April 14, 2018
Read the full article on Film Companion, here: http://www.filmcompanion.in/the-contentious-nature-of-the-national-awards-baahubali-village-rockstars-sridevi/ Musings on the country’s most prestigious film awards – and this is not about whether X deserved to win over Y. Another year. Another set of arguments over the National Awards. For instance: Did Sridevi deserve Best Actress? Indeed, under normal circumstances, would her performance in […]
A king and his times
May 21, 2016
Looking back at the Ilayaraja era, which began forty years ago, with the release of ‘Annakili’ on 14 May, 1976. So Ilayaraja’s music and I, we’re both in our forties. This doesn’t mean that his is the only music I grew up with. The songs on radio and television came from the 60s, 50s, sometimes […]
Master of Arts
October 17, 2014
Kamal Haasan talks about how music came into his life. And dance. And everything else. Baradwaj Rangan listens. Forget the actor. That was the brief. After fifty years of acting, that’s the only facet of Kamal Haasan people think about. Sometimes, maybe, they think of Kamal Haasan the writer or Kamal Haasan the director. But […]
Baradwaj Rangan 
June 23, 2021
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