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Talking heads
Ramsu, who has commented here in the past, has a post up about my interviews for Film Companion. FC South is just a few months old and we still have a long way to go, but this was a nice shot in the arm. Excerpt: I wonder if Baradwaj Rangan’s training as an engineer has […]
In the pages of Mint Lounge
June 10, 2017
In which I give gyaan and get to pose for a Vanity Fair style portrait with eminences on the cover of Mint Lounge. With Smriti Kiran, Meenakshi Shedde, Radhika Apte, Vikramaditya Motwane, Amit Masurkar.(Photo courtesy: Abhijit Bhatlekar/ Mint) Here’s a link to the piece: http://bit.ly/2s5k2yM
Readers Write In #14: Back to school
April 19, 2017
“When you’re a little kid, you are a bit of everything-artist, scientist, athlete, scholar. Sometimes, it seems growing up is like a process of giving those things up, one by one.” – The Wonder Years. When you live in Besant Nagar and your school is in Mandavalli, the one hour trip on the school bus […]
Toon-ing into an interview…
April 10, 2017
Ramki Bellur strikes again! “Dear BR, Am really enjoying your video reviews. Can’t thank you enough for the interviews of MR and Vetrimaaran. Made a cartoon related to your latest interview with MR. Hope you enjoy it. Regards and best wishes, Ramki” Well, thank YOU, Ramki.
The cartoonist strikes back!
March 20, 2017
Ramki Bellur strikes again! “Dear BR, Trust you are having a wonderful time at FC. Made a cartoon related to your fan’s current mindset.”
From a reader…
March 2, 2017
I never cease to be touched when readers take the time to personalise things. This cartoon came with this message. “Dear BR, Congrats! Wish you the very best in all that you do. A small dedication from my side on this occasion…hope you like it.” Thank you, Ramki Bellur.
New beginnings…
March 1, 2017
A new start today: as Editor, Film Companion (South) and Chief Consultant, Programming, Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival with Star. It’s a bit nerve-wracking, to be honest — this move to digital. I’ve talked about it in my first post for FC: http://www.filmcompanion.in/article/southern-lights-hello-from-this-side-of-the-vindhyas So, about the blog. My reviews of (and pieces on) South Indian films […]
A koffee moment…
February 24, 2017
So we got a press release (reproduced below) for the latest episode of Koffee with Karan (to be telecast this Sunday), and guess which film critic’s name popped up!!! I hope they don’t delete this bit at the last minute, but even if they do, it was fun just reading this. Koffee with Karan Renowned […]
Bitty Ruminations 84
February 3, 2017
There are many tributes to Nirmal Shekar out there. I just want to talk about what it meant for a kid interested in words, in language, in writing, in self-expression to read someone like him. There’s the general tendency, today, to look down on writerly writing. It’s considered masturbatory. Write simply, in a way everyone […]
Kalki: First look
January 20, 2017
The first look is out for Kalki, a short film I wrote for director Dhilip Kumar, based on a premise he had in mind. It stars Kishore and Yasmin Ponnappa, and though I wasn’t present for all stages of post-production, it was a special thrill to work with Sreekar Prasad in his editing room, pacing […]
Happy 2017
January 1, 2017
I’m really bummed about not getting the annual WordPress stats report. One of the start-of-the-year things I look forward to the most is seeing the top five commenters. Who has maintained his/her position from last year? Who’s dropped out and found a life? Alas, these revelations shall remain locked up in the bowels of this […]
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 […]
Analysis, critical!
October 8, 2016
Social media may not have killed the film critic, but it has definitely changed the business of film criticism. In a panel discussion at the Indywood Film Carnival, held in Hyderabad last week, I was asked about the impact of social media on critics. It wasn’t the first time I’ve been asked this question. It […]
Conversations with Mahesh Bhatt
September 3, 2016
This April, at this event, I was invited to converse with Mahesh Bhatt about Smita Patil. It took a while, but the video is finally here. Really enjoyed the conversation. Hope you do too.
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 […]
Tamil short stories
May 12, 2016
So this is a plug, not just for the book you’re going to read about in a bit but also for the Tamil short story. The first grown-up stories I read were in Tamil. Enid Blytons and Hardy Boys adventures and other kinds of English reading came from the library, but I’d get done with […]
Out in newsstands now…
April 5, 2016
The new issue of The Indian Quarterly is out, and I have a story in it. (As in, fiction.) Do check it out. PS: A big shout-out to everyone who read early drafts and made suggestions. PPS: It’s not online yet.
Looney toons
March 12, 2016
Got this bit of kindness from a reader and am sharing with gratitude and permission (his name is Ramki Bellur and he blogs at https://bellurramki18.wordpress.com/): Dear Mr.Baradwaj Rangan, I have been your silent admirer for 4 years now. Coming straight to the point, couldn’t resist doing the attached cartoon. Take care and keep feeding us with your […]
Conversations with… me!
March 6, 2016
Thanks to Rahul Desai and Tanul Thakur, I got to talk about a lot of things I think about as a critic, as a writer. Here is the interview. http://indiaindependentfilms.com/conversations-with-baradwaj-rangan/
Comments, moderation, yada yada…
March 3, 2016
I hate to lose readers and I’m sorry things have come to this. But I need to say a few things: This blog thing, it’s not a full-time thing — though, of late, it’s begun to feel like one. In the limited time that I have, I try to skim through comments and approve them. (It’s […]
June 19, 2017
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