Recent Posts

• Interview: Raghubir Yadav, Anshuman Jha (‘Om Ka Hari’)
• From the Web (FTW) #41: Hasan Minhaj x AR Rahman
• Ben Rekhi’s ‘Last Man in Tower’ is a wonderfully textured drama about holding on to the past versus moving ahead with the rest of the world
• Mathimaran Pugazhendhi’s ‘Mandaadi’ is a rock-solid drama set against a boat-racing background
• PS Mithran’s ‘Sardar 2’ is an overlong spy thriller that needed more surprises, more thrills
• Interview: Manoj Bajpayee, Divya Dutta, Ben Rekhi, Rana Daggubatti (‘Last Man in Tower’)
• Readers Write In #1122: On a sunny day
• Interview: Parvathy Thiruvothu (‘Pradhama Drishtiya Kuttakkar’)
• From the Web (FTW) #40: Mouna Ragam: A political allegory of India’s turn to neoliberalism
• Readers Write In #1121: Translated ‘Anbulla Appa’, by Sujatha
• Readers Write In #1120: Mirzapur: The Movie is watchable but adds little to the existing universe
• Readers Write In #1119: Mirzapur Season 3 has issues but is still enjoyable
• Interview: Nikkhil Advani, Bhuvan Bam, Rohit Saraf, Pratibha Ranta, Gurfateh Pirzada (‘The Revolutionaries’)
• Venu Gopal Reddy’s ‘Romanchakam’ offers plenty of laughs but the emotions don’t work
• Interview: ‘Vikkals’ Vikram (‘Vikkals of Vikram’)
• Mariyappan Chinna’s ‘Immortal’ is a just-about-okayish thriller about a man who’s trapped by an… “immortal”
• Hanuman Ansh
• Nahas Hidhayath’s ‘I’m Game’ has a nice, new premise that becomes an overlong, old-fashioned revenge story
• Devashish Makhija’s ‘Gandhari’, on Netflix, is a middling, overfamiliar heroine-centric action-drama
• Interview: Kayadu Lohar (‘I’m Game’ / ‘Immortal’)
• Readers Write In #1118: Avasthe (1987)- A retrospective
• Readers Write In #1117: Mirzapur Season 2: A wholesome, entertaining season that delivers payoffs as well as humour in abundance
• Readers Write In #1116: The scramble to succeed Rajnikanth – Part 2 (2011-2024)
• Interview: Vignesh Srikanth (‘Once More’)
• Interview: Soori (‘Mandaadi’)
• Readers Write In #1115: Humans in the Loop: When the Loop Cannot Close Without Us
• Interview: Aditya Haasan (‘Epic’)
• Readers Write In #1114: Of Pongal Tests Past
• Readers Write In #1113: Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups is watchable but doesn’t allow us to care
• Interview: Sumanth (‘Mahendragiri Varahi’)
• Ambiecka Pandit’s ‘Babita Singh Reporting’ is a Nimisha Sajayan showcase, and frankly, that’s enough
• Vignesh Srikanth’s ‘Once More’ is a pleasant romance that opts for small moments over big drama
• Readers Write In #1112: The scramble to succeed Rajnikanth – Part 1 (2000-2010)
• Interview: Raja Karuppasamy (‘Modha Rathri’)
• Geetu Mohandas’s ‘Toxic’ is eccentric, ambitious, not fully successful, but not without interest either
• Interview: Kavin / Vishnu Edavan (‘Hi :) ‘)
• Gireesh AD’s ‘Bethlehem Kudumba Unit’ is an exquisitely detailed story about love and other relationships
• Nitin Kakkar’s ‘Awarapan 2’ is a routine gangster action-drama aided by its leading man and its beautiful visuals
• Shiva Nirvana’s ‘Irumudi’ is a very effective mix of devotion and emotion
• Ramachandran Kannan’s ‘Ram and Leela’ is a rom-com fantasy that doesn’t know what to do with its premise
• Raja Karuppasamy’s ‘Modha Rathri’ is a confident debut feature that combines the flavours of Tamil and Malayalam cinema
• Vysakh’s ‘Khalifa’ is yet another star vehicle that thinks slo-mo swag is enough to make a story interesting
• Readers Write In #1111: The Odyssey at IMAX 70MM
• Readers Write In #1110: Vishwanath & Sons – An anti-family entertainer
• Readers Write In #1109: Girish A.D.’s Bethlehem Kudumba Unit: Small moments, big cinema
• Readers Write In #1108: Michael: The Beat That Shook the World, Again
• Readers Write In #1107: Novak Djokovic documentary – the indefatigable rebel gives us the coolest tennis documentary
• Readers Write In #1106: Vishwanath & Sons – So…what exactly is the problem?
• Readers Write In #1105: Naruse’s Ginza Cosmetics: A Life Observed
• Readers Write In #1104: A midsummer Tokyo story