“Article 15.”… A well-intentioned, well-crafted drama about caste that needed...
Read the full review on Film Companion, here: https://www.filmcompanion.in/article-15-movie-review-ayushmann-khurrana-baradwaj-rangan Spoilers ahead… O ne of the biggest challenges of writing for our...
View ArticleReaders Write In #85: The Dancer Upstairs, and the Actor Beneath….
(by An Jo) An engineering back-ground warrants me to put in certain key pre-conditions: I understand, read, and write [write to varying degrees] only 4 languages: Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, English,...
View Article#AskBR – Happy birthday, K Balachander
In which I answer a few questions on an older film… or a new one… or talk about actors and directors… or take on a few YouTube comments… For more, subscribe to FILM COMPANION SOUTH:...
View ArticleInterview: Pa Ranjith (on his cinema)
For more, subscribe to FILM COMPANION SOUTH: http://bit.ly/2xoNult Copyright ©2019 Film Companion.
View ArticleReaders Write In #87: Why nepotism might be good for Indian cinema… and...
(by Sairam Yadavilli) It was the summer of 2016 and Paul Pogba had just moved back to Manchester United for a then world record fee of just under 90 million pounds. And it was the just the beginning of...
View Article“Super 30.”… A smashingly effective story of a determined educator and his...
Spoilers ahead… After a long time, or maybe for the first time ever, Hrithik Roshan comes across like a non-Greek non-God – a normal human, in other words. He’s thinner, darker, unmuscled. His unironed...
View ArticleFC Recco –‘Directors’ Diaries: The Road to Their First Film’
A weekly series where I recommend a film-based book, a foreign film or an Indian movie. For more, subscribe to FILM COMPANION SOUTH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Ym39kMJD0 Copyright ©2019 Film...
View ArticleReaders Write In #89: Sreehari Nair and the mollycoddling of the art genius
(by Madan Mohan) I have thus far avoided writing about Kabir Singh, specifically about the reactions to it, except in comments on existing threads, finding the discussions to be altogether too...
View ArticleInterview: Nagarjuna – Part 1
For more, subscribe to FILM COMPANION SOUTH: http://bit.ly/2xoNult Copyright ©2019 Film Companion.
View Article“Judgementall Hai Kya”… Kangana Ranaut pulls out all the stops in a nuttily...
The film is far more convincing as an art installation about a mental condition than as a whodunit, whydunit or did anyone indeed dunit in the first place! Spoilers ahead… The straight way to narrate...
View ArticleInterview: Nagarjuna – Part 2
For more, subscribe to FILM COMPANION SOUTH: http://bit.ly/2xoNult Copyright ©2019 Film Companion.
View ArticleReaders Write In #90: Why Kangana’s spat with the media is just what the...
(by PG Nair) Unless you have been living under a rock there is little chance that you have missed Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut’s confrontation with a media person Justin Rao during the promotions of...
View ArticleInterview: Boney Kapoor
For more, subscribe to FILM COMPANION SOUTH: http://bit.ly/2xoNult Copyright ©2019 Film Companion.
View Article“Mission Mangal”… Vidya Balan is terrific in a cutesy movie that never rises...
Given the ‘heavy’ subject, you see why there’s so much emphasis on folksy colour, folksier humor. But the folksiness comes at a cost. Spoilers ahead… In recent years, Akshay Kumar has won a gold medal...
View Article‘Nivin Pauly was scared… in a really good way’
Read the full article on Film Companion, here: https://www.filmcompanion.in/nivin-pauly-was-scared-in-a-really-ood-way-geethu-mohandas-baradwaj-rangan/ Ahead of ‘Moothon’, which will be screened at the...
View ArticleCreating a conversation around trans characters in cinema
Read the full article on Film Companion, here: https://www.filmcompanion.in/creating-a-conversation-baradwaj-rangan-around-trans-characters-in-cinema/ A look at how ‘Super Deluxe’ depicts a trans...
View ArticleInterview: Prabhas
For more, subscribe to FILM COMPANION SOUTH: http://bit.ly/2xoNult Copyright ©2019 Film Companion.
View ArticleFC @ Venice 2019 – Full coverage
Read the coverage at Film Companion (links below)… 1: BOMBAY ROSE https://www.filmcompanion.in/venice-international-fim-festival-2019-bombay-rose-movie-review-baradwaj-rangan/ 2: AD ASTRA...
View Article“Bombay Rose”… Gitanjali Rao’s first animated feature is a lovely ode to the...
The animation is lovely. I’d say “spectacular”, but that’s too big, too technological-sounding a word, something you’d use for a Pixar movie, with its banks of gleaming computers. Spoilers ahead… You...
View Article“After your mid-30s, politics and social issues become important”
Read the full article on Film Companion, here: https://www.filmcompanion.in/gitanjali-rao-interview-bombay-rose-venice-international-film-festival-2019-baradwaj-rangan Gitanjali Rao and Deborah Sathe...
View Article