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• Interview: Lokesh Kanagaraj (Vikram)
• The new Mohanlal-Jeethu Joseph thriller, ’12th Man’, on Disney+ Hotstar is talky and dull
• Kangana Ranaut gets into action mode, but even she can’t battle a script that is just a bunch of cliches
• Rahul PK’s ‘Sakutumba Sametha’ plays like an easy-breezy rom-com, but it’s more: a beautifully written choreography of conflict
• Rahul Riji Nair’s cyber-thriller ‘Keedam’ has solid performances from Rajisha Vijayan and Sreenivasan, but the plotting never transcends the basics of the genre
• Readers Write In #464: நான் எப்படி “ஒரு மனிதன் ஒரு வீடு ஒரு உலகத்தை” புரிந்துகொண்டிருக்கிறேன் ?
• We did a YouTube Live for a small landmark: 50k subscribers.
• Mammootty is spectacular in Ratheena’s ‘Puzhu’ (SonyLIV), the rare film where a man from a dominant caste is depicted as a victim
• Interview: Kangana Ranaut (Dhaakad)
• 10 Questions: Parvathy
• Interview: Parvathy (Puzhu)
• Readers Write In #463: The Devil Wears…Propaganda?
• Raj Singh Chaudhary’s ‘Thar’, on Netflix, is a neo-Western that sets up an interesting premise and does very little with it
• Arun Matheswaran’s ‘Saani Kaayidham’, on Amazon Prime, is a gory revenge drama with impeccable craft, but the writing needed much more meat
• 10 Questions: Vignesh Shivan
• Readers Write In #462: Gangubai Kathiawadi – Impotent Pomposity
• Readers Write In #461: Kaathu Vaakula… A tale of two many backstories
• Dijo Jose Antony’s ‘Jana Gana Mana’ is a well-performed drama (Prithviraj Sukumaran, Suraj Venjaramoodu) about the slipperiness of truth
• Post Truth and Pseudorealism
• Ahmed Khan’s ‘Heropanti 2’ has some good stunts but everything else is bad
• Ajay Devgn’s ‘Runway 34’ transforms a tense and horrifying real-life event into a flat drama
• Lights, Camera, Analysis: Vignesh Shivan (Kaathu Vaakula Rendu Kadhal)
• Despite good performances and some good laughs, Vignesh Shivan’s ‘Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal’ doesn’t come together satisfyingly
• 10 Questions: Koratala Siva
• Interview: Koratala Siva (Acharya)
• Readers Write In #460: The Isolating Soundscape of Better Call Saul.
• Gowtam Tinnanuri’s ‘Jersey’, with Shahid Kapoor and Mrunal Thakur, is generic and simplistic, but an easy and pleasant watch
• In ‘Antakshari’, a fairly engaging thriller directed by Vipin Das, Saiju Kurup plays a music-loving cop who gets involved in a mystery
• #QnA: KGF: Chapter 2
• #QnA: Beast
• Readers Write In #459: Self reflective movies and their charm
• Readers Write In #458: Telugu cinema is having a dream run, and Indian cinema needs it now more than ever
• In ‘KGF: Chapter Two’, director Prashant Neel and his star Yash deliver a superior, epic sequel
• In ‘Beast’, Nelson and Vijay join hands to deliver an underwhelming hostage drama
• 10 Questions: Prashanth Neel
• 10 Questions: Yash
• Readers Write In #457: Grammar, Vocabulary, Kaadhal, and all that
• The okayish ‘Taanakkaran’, by Tamizh, has Vikram Prabhu as a heroic police trainee taking on the System.
• In Tushar Jalota’s inconsistently written ‘Dasvi’, Abhishek Bachchan is a politician who wants to study and Nimrat Kaur shines as his cartoonish wife
• Interview: Prashanth Neel (KGF / KGF: 2)
• Interview: Yash (KGF / KGF: 2)
• 10 Questions: Vidya Balan
• Interview: Vidya Balan
• Readers Write In #456: On ‘The Power of the Dog’
• Shishir Jha’s ‘Tortoise Under the Earth’ is a moving document of the Santhal-speakers in Jharkhand, whose lives are being displaced by uranium-mining companies.
• Readers Write In #455: Kashmir Files Part II
• Raga 2 Rock
• Nipun Dharmadhikari’s ‘Mee Vasantrao’ is a superb biopic that captures the essence of the great classical singer Vasantrao Deshpande
• Mathi Maran’s underwhelming ‘Selfie’, has GV Prakash as a college student who stumbles on a “seats for money” racket.