By Sudharsanan Sampath This is a film. Not a narrative film. But maybe a documentary? I don’t think it can be called a documentary. It is something. I’ve been living a very nomadic life, moving from town to town, city to city and country to country. I’ve always liked visiting and living in a big […]
January 6, 2023
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January 6, 2023
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January 5, 2023
By Krishnaraj Sambath As a Watcher FDFS (my first ever!) on 30-Sep-2022, 6PM show in Houston, TX. There were 5 of us in total in the theatre, including my wife and 4-yr old son. (Not the ear-deafening paper-showering cinematic FDFS experience I was hoping for) As a Reader Why did I pick up this book? […]
January 5, 2023
For more, subscribe to GALATTA PLUS: https://tinyurl.com/ysbkyrht The Galatta Plus team travels to Kalardiya — Rima Das’s village in Guwahati — for an interview. And to get a flavour of the locale where all her films have been shot. Copyright ©2023 GALATTA.
January 3, 2023
Starting a new series of stuff from the web that I think will generate some interesting comments…
January 2, 2023
I read this passage — which is a kind of epilogue to Pauline Kael’s review of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It was written in 1969, and what she says seems to resonate with what we are going through today. For your comments / consideration (additions in square brackets are mine): Just when there […]
December 31, 2022
By Abhirup Mascharak Badhaai Do. Director: Harshvardhan Kulkarni. Hindi cinema has been tackling LGBT stories for a while now, and most of these films have woven their narratives around certain issues pertinent to the queer community: moral policing (Aligarh), coming out (Dear Dad), living at the intersection of queerness and other marginalized identities (Margarita with […]
December 31, 2022
It’s been a strange year. The move to Galatta… a minor hernia surgery (and the resultant weight increase, during the post-operative recovery period)… the post-pandemic realisation that life is even shorter than we thought and every diem is something to be carpe-d, plus a whole bunch of other stuff. A lot of things I have […]
December 30, 2022
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December 30, 2022
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December 30, 2022
By Madhumithaa S Respectably enough, Pradeep Ranganathan’s Love Today begins with a disclaimer that no animals or birds were harmed in the making of the movie. Errrrrr…did he forget something? What about harming humans with this movie? I am so furious that I’m not sure about where to start, and how to go about. But, […]
December 29, 2022
By Anonymous PART 1 – Houston, we have a problem! The period when you are 16-18 years old can be a harrowing phase in your life. There is not only a turmoil that is happening on the inside, but also a battle that is being waged on the outside. A period when every relative of yours is […]
December 26, 2022
By Karthik Amarnath The Greatest Show on Earth, Cecile B. Demille’s lavish 1952 film about a grand traveling circus opens with these lines: We bring you the circus. The pied piper, whose magic tunes lead children of all ages, from 6 to 60, into a tinsel and spun-candy world of reckless beauty and mounting laughter, […]
December 23, 2022
Spoilers ahead… Two Ranveer Singhs, two Varun Sharmas, Pooja Hegde, Jacqueline Fernandez, and a riot of comic-book colours – but where’s the effort? The term “lowbrow comedy” is used to describe a kind of broad, farce-like, slapstick-filled effort to make you laugh – but the term is a little offensive. All of us like to […]
December 23, 2022
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December 22, 2022
Spoilers ahead… But the scares apart, there is no emotional depth. And the film does not show anything we have not seen in earlier stories about exorcism. There are times Ashwin Saravanan’s Connect appears to be a COVID-era homage to The Exorcist. Here, too, we have a single mother, played by a gritty Nayanthara, alternating […]
December 21, 2022
By Cholan Raje Jimmy is driven by a need for validation. Because of his life as a conman, the only people who ever loved and respected him were his parents and Marco. The relative scorn he received from everyone else always caused him to, in the back of his mind, have a low image of […]
December 19, 2022
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January 7, 2023
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